Gauss-Laguerre wavelet textural feature fusion with geometrical information for facial expression identification

Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Poursaberi, Ahmad ^a   Noubari, Hossein Ahmadi ^b   Gavrilova, Marina ^a   Yanushkevich, Svetlana N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Facial expression; Feature fusion; Gauss Laguerre wavelet; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

FACIAL EXPRESSION CLASSIFICATION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; FEATURE FUSION; GAUSS-LAGUERRE; GEOMETRIC INFORMATION; GEOMETRICAL INFORMATIONS; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURES;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84879368713     PISSN: 16875176     EISSN: 16875281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-5281-2012-17     Document Type: Article

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