Performance evaluation of single and multiple-Gaussian models for skin color modeling

Brazilian Symposium of Computer Graphic and Image Processing

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 275-282

  Caetano, Tiberio S ^a   Olabarriaga, Silvia D ^a   Barone, Dante A C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FACE RECOGNITION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

FALSE POSITIVE RATES; GAUSSIAN COMPONENTS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS CURVES (ROC); RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SINGLE GAUSSIAN MODEL; SKIN COLOR MODELING; TRUE POSITIVE RATES;

COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84951922055     PISSN: 15301834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRA.2002.1167155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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