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FGR
2004
IEEE
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Oriented Filters for Object Recognition: an Empirical Study
Local descriptors are increasingly used for the task of object recognition because of their perceived robustness with respect to occlusions and to global geometrical deformations....
Jerry Jun Yokono, Tomaso Poggio
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Face Contour Construction with Multiple Information
In this paper, we present a new method to obtain the contours of color faces. First, we introduce a new nonlinear skin classifier to detect the human skin information in images. T...
Jinfeng Yang, Tieniu Tan, Weiming Hu
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Face Recognition Using Ada-Boosted Gabor Features
Face representation based on Gabor features has attracted much attention and achieved great success in face recognition area for the advantages of the Gabor features. However, Gab...
Peng Yang, Shiguang Shan, Wen Gao, Stan Z. Li, Don...
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Active Morphable Model: An Efficient Method for Face Analysis
Multidimensional Morphable Model is a powerful model to analyze and synthesize human faces. However, the stochastic gradient descent algorithm adopted to match the Morphable Model...
Xun Xu, Changshui Zhang, Thomas S. Huang
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Automatic 3D Face Recognition Combining Global Geometric Features with Local Shape Variation Information
Face recognition is a focused issue in pattern recognition over the past decades. In this paper, we have proposed a new scheme for face recognition using 3D information. In this s...
Chenghua Xu, Yunhong Wang, Tieniu Tan, Long Quan
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Recognizing Song-Based Blink Patterns: Applications for Restricted and Universal Access
We introduce a novel system for recognizing patterns of eye blinks for use in assistive technology interfaces and security systems. First, we present a blink-based interface for c...
Tracy L. Westeyn, Thad Starner
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Using Random Subspace to Combine Multiple Features for Face Recognition
LDA is a popular subspace based face recognition approach. However, it often suffers from the small sample size problem. When dealing with the high dimensional face data, the LDA ...
Xiaogang Wang, Xiaoou Tang
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Face Recognition under Varying Lighting Conditions Using Self Quotient Image
In this paper, we introduce the concept of SelfQuotient Image (SQI) for robust face recognition under varying lighting conditions. It is based on the Quotient Image method [4][5] ...
Haitao Wang, Stan Z. Li, Yangsheng Wang
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Robust Lip Contour Extraction using Separability of Multi-Dimensional Distributions
We present a lip contour extraction method using separability of color intensity distributions. Usually it is difficult to robustly extract the outer lip contour mainly because of...
Tomokazu Wakasugi, Masahide Nishiura, Kazuhiro Fuk...
FGR
2004
IEEE
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On Automated Model-Based Extraction and Analysis of Gait
We develop a new model-based extraction process guided by biomechanical analysis for walking people, and analyse its data for recognition capability. Hierarchies of shape and moti...
David K. Wagg, Mark S. Nixon