Visual tracking of hands, faces and facial features of multiple persons

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1141-1157

  Baltzakis, Haris ^a   Pateraki, Maria ^a   Trahanias, Panos ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blob tracking; Facial features; Hand and face tracking; Incremental classification; Template matching

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE BASED; DETECTION AND TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; FACIAL FEATURE; FEATURE-BASED; HAND AND FACE TRACKING; HAND GESTURE; IMAGE SEQUENCE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PROBABILISTIC CLASSIFIERS; PUBLIC PLACES; REAL TIME; SKIN COLOR; SKIN-COLORED REGIONS; SPECIFIC TASKS; VISUAL TRACKING;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 84870244999     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-012-0409-5     Document Type: Article

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