State of the art in infrared face recognition

Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-26

  Akhloufi, Moulay ^a   Bendada, Abdelhakim ^a   Batsale, Jean Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b ARTS ET MÉTIERS PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Features extraction; Image fusion; Infrared

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010555678     PISSN: 17686733     EISSN: 21167176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/qirt.5.3-26     Document Type: Article

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