Smile detection by boosting pixel differences

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 431-436

  Shan, Caifeng ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AdaBoost; facial expression recognition; smile detection

Indexed keywords

FACE IMAGES; FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; GRAY SCALE; INTENSITY DIFFERENCE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; WEAK CLASSIFIERS;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GESTURE RECOGNITION;

PIXELS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84255177551     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2161587     Document Type: Article

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