Robust facial feature tracking using shape-constrained multiresolution- selected linear predictors

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1844-1859

  Ong, Eng Jon ^a   Bowden, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facial feature tracking; learning; linear predictors; multiple resolution; probabilistic selection.

Indexed keywords

FACIAL FEATURE TRACKING; LEARNING; LINEAR PREDICTORS; MULTIPLE RESOLUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC SELECTION.;

AUTOMATION; DEFORMATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOMETRY; FACE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 80054887550     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.205     Document Type: Article

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