This paper addresses the application of active contours or snakes for location and tracking of facial features. Conventional snake approaches find the position of the snake by fin...
In this paper, we present a face authentication system that can be broken down in three stages. Prior to feature extraction, a pose correction step is applied, so that frontal fac...
—Soft biometric traits embedded in a face (e.g., gender and facial marks) are ancillary information and are not fully distinctive by themselves in face-recognition tasks. However...
Illumination conditions cause problems for many computer vision algorithms. Inparticular, shadows in an image can cause segmentation, tracking, or recognition algorithms to fail. I...
Graham D. Finlayson, Steven D. Hordley, Mark S. Dr...
A central task in multimedia systems is image management (storage and retrieval). As information is disseminated across vast networks, such as the Internet, methods of locating au...