Improving facial expression analysis using histograms of Log-Transformed Nonnegative Sparse Representation with a Spatial Pyramid Structure

2013 10th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, FG 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liu, Ping ^a   Han, Shizhong ^a   Tong, Yan ^a  

^a The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; HUMAN-CENTERED COMPUTING; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMATIONS; NON-NEGATIVE SPARSE CODING; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

FACE RECOGNITION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; GRAPHIC METHODS;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 84881505563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FG.2013.6553774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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