Mobile face detection and tracking for media streaming applications

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 192-211

  Tsishkou, Dzmitry ^a   Chen, Liming ^a   Bovbel, Eugeny ^b  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Face detection; Face recognition; Low bit rate coding; Mobile media streaming

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE CODING; MEDIA STREAMING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OBJECT DETECTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FACE DETECTION AND TRACKING; FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND; LOW BIT RATE CODING; MOBILE MEDIA STREAMING; MOBILE-PHONE USERS; OBJECT DETECTION ALGORITHMS; STREAMING APPLICATIONS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84857995418     PISSN: 17411084     EISSN: 17411092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2007.014457     Document Type: Article

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