Car model recognition by utilizing symmetric property to overcome severe pose variation

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 255-274

  Gu, Hui Zhen ^a   Lee, Suh Yin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active shape model; Car model recognition; Mirror morphing; Pose estimation; Template matching

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SHAPE MODEL; ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS; CAR MODELS; CENTER BIAS; CENTER ESTIMATIONS; LOW PROBABILITY; MORPHING; MORPHING TECHNIQUES; POSE ERROR; POSE ESTIMATION; POSE VARIATION; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION RATES; SHAPE INFORMATION;

FACE RECOGNITION; MIRRORS; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

MODEL AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 84872359384     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-012-0414-8     Document Type: Article

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