Pose robust face tracking by combining view-based AAMs and temporal filters

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 777-792

  Huang, Chen ^a   Ding, Xiaoqing ^a   Fang, Chi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ASM; Face tracking; Kalman filter; Random forest; Shape initialization; Temporal matching filter; View based AAM

Indexed keywords

ASM; FACE TRACKING; RANDOM FORESTS; SHAPE INITIALIZATION; TEMPORAL MATCHING; VIEW-BASED;

DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; KALMAN FILTERS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; RANDOM PROCESSES; TREES;

EID: 84859735693     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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