Face recognition in low resolution thermal images

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1689-1694

  Mostafa, Eslam ^a,d   Hammoud, Riad ^b   Ali, Asem ^c   Farag, Aly ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b Companion Eye Systems ^*  (United States)

^c Assiut University   (Egypt)

^d Alexandria University The Faculty Of Engineering   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Features detection; MAP; Probabilistic model; Thermal imaging

Indexed keywords

ADABOOST ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPLEX GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; FACIAL FEATURES DETECTION; FEATURES DETECTIONS; GEOMETRIC INFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; ROTATION INVARIANT;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; ALGORITHMS; DETECTORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED IMAGING; MAPS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84886591990     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2013.07.010     Document Type: Article

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