Image warping for face recognition: From local optimality towards global optimization

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3131-3140

  Pishchulin, Leonid ^a   Gass, Tobias ^b   Dreuw, Philippe ^c   Ney, Hermann ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy minimization; Face recognition; Image warping

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; IMAGE STRUCTURES; IMAGE WARPING; LOCAL OPTIMALITY; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; VARIABLE DOMAIN;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84861583878     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2011.10.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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