Enhancing face detection in colour images using a skin probability map

Proceedings of 2001 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing, ISIMP 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 344-347

  Brand, Jason ^a   Mason, John S ^a   Roach, Matthew ^a   Pawlewski, Mark ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detection; Face; Skin

Indexed keywords

COLOUR IMAGE; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; FACE; FACE REGIONS; FALSE ACCEPTANCE; FALSE REJECTION; IMAGE REGIONS; INTENSITY-BASED; LABELED DATA; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SKIN PROBABILITY MAPS; SKIN SEGMENTATION; TEST IMAGES;

ERROR DETECTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SKIN;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84872329448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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