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2000
IEEE
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Memory-Based Face Recognition for Visitor Identification
We show that a simple, memory-based technique for appearance-based face recognition, motivated by the realworld task of visitor identification, can outperform more sophisticated a...
Terence Sim, Rahul Sukthankar, Matthew D. Mullin, ...
FGR
2000
IEEE
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Person Tracking in Real-World Scenarios Using Statistical Methods
This paper presents a novel approach to robust and flexible person tracking using an algorithm that combines two powerful stochastic modeling techniques: The first one is the tech...
Gerhard Rigoll, Stefan Eickeler, Stefan Mülle...
FGR
2000
IEEE
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Comparison of Confidence Measures for Face Recognition
This paper compares different confidence measures for the results of statistical face recognition systems. The main applications of a confidence measure are rejection of unknown p...
Stefan Eickeler, Mirco Jabs, Gerhard Rigoll
FGR
2000
IEEE
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Robust Facial Feature Localization by Coupled Features
In this paper, we consider the problem of robust localization of faces and some of their facial features. The task arises e.g. in the medical field of visual analysis of facial p...
Matthias Zobel, Arnd Gebhard, Dietrich Paulus, Joa...
FGR
2000
IEEE
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Segmenting Hands of Arbitrary Color
Colorhasbeen widelyused for handsegmentation. However, many approaches rely on predefined skin color models. It is very difficult to predefine a color model in a mobile applica...
Xiaojin Zhu, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
FGR
2000
IEEE
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Robust 3D Head Tracking Under Partial Occlusion
This paper describes a novel system for 3D head tracking under partial occlusion from 2D monocular image sequences. In this system, The Extended Superquadric (ESQ) is used to gene...
Ye Zhang, Chandra Kambhamettu
FGR
2000
IEEE
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Face Detection Using Mixtures of Linear Subspaces
We present two methods using mixtures of linear subspaces for face detection in gray level images. One method uses a mixture of factor analyzers to concurrently perform clustering...
Ming-Hsuan Yang, Narendra Ahuja, David J. Kriegman
FGR
2000
IEEE
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A Virtual 3D Blackboard: 3D Finger Tracking Using a Single Camera
We present a method for tracking the 3D position of a nger, using a single camera placed several meters away from the user. After skin detection, we use motion to identify the ges...
Andrew Wu, Mubarak Shah, Niels da Vitoria Lobo
FGR
2000
IEEE
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Understanding Purposeful Human Motion
Human motion can be understood on many levels. The most basic level is the notion that humans are collections of things that have predictable visual appearance. Next is the notion...
Christopher Richard Wren, Brian P. Clarkson, Alex ...
FGR
2000
IEEE
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Viewpoint-Invariant Learning and Detection of Human Heads
We present a method to learn models of human heads for the purpose of detection from different viewing angles. We focus on a model where objects are represented as constellations ...
Markus Weber, Wolfgang Einhäuser, Max Welling...