Computationally light forehead segmentation from thermal images

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 169-172

  Gault, Travis R ^a   Farag, Aly A ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Thermal segmentation; tracking

Indexed keywords

SALIENT FEATURES; SURFACE FEATURE; THERMAL FEATURES; THERMAL IMAGES; TRAINING DATA; VISIBLE SPECTRA; VITAL SIGN;

SURFACE DISCHARGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84875869489     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2012.6466822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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