Lips contour detection and tracking using watershed region-based active contour model and modified H∞

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 869-874

  Chin, Siew Wen ^a   Seng, Kah Phooi ^a,b   Ang, Li Minn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b SUNWAY UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

active contour models (ACM); H filter; lip contour detection and tracking; lypunov stability theory; watershed

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; CONTOUR DETECTION; GLOBAL ENERGY; GLOBAL STATISTICS; INITIAL CONTOUR; LIP CONTOUR; LOCAL INFORMATION; LYAPUNOV STABILITY THEORY; LYPUNOV STABILITY; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

MEDIA STREAMING; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84861967161     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2011.2180771     Document Type: Article

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