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FGR
2006
IEEE
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Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System
Facial composites are typically constructed by witnesses to crime by describing a suspect's face and then selecting facial features from a kit of parts. Unfortunately, when p...
Charlie D. Frowd, Vicki Bruce, Alex H. McIntyre, P...
FGR
2006
IEEE
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Articulated Hand Tracking by PCA-ICA Approach
—This paper introduces a new representation of hand motions for tracking and recognizing hand-finger gestures in an image sequence. A human hand has many joints, for example our ...
Makoto Kato, Yen-Wei Chen, Gang Xu
FGR
2006
IEEE
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Automatic Skin Segmentation for Gesture Recognition Combining Region and Support Vector Machine Active Learning
Skin segmentation is the cornerstone of many applications such as gesture recognition, face detection, and objectionable image filtering. In this paper, we attempt to address the ...
Junwei Han, George Awad, Alistair Sutherland, Hai ...
FGR
2006
IEEE
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Face Recognition with Image Sets Using Hierarchically Extracted Exemplars from Appearance Manifolds
An unsupervised nonparametric approach is proposed to automatically extract representative face samples (exemplars) from a video sequence or an image set for multipleshot face rec...
Wei Fan, Dit-Yan Yeung
FGR
2006
IEEE
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Haar Features for FACS AU Recognition
We examined the effectiveness of using Haar features and the Adaboost boosting algorithm for FACS action unit (AU) recognition. We evaluated both recognition accuracy and processi...
Jacob Whitehill, Christian W. Omlin
FGR
2006
IEEE
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Gesture Spotting in Low-Quality Video with Features Based on Curvature Scale Space
Player’s gesture and action spotting in sports video is a key task in automatic analysis of the video material at a high level. In many sports views, the camera covers a large p...
Myung-Cheol Roh, William J. Christmas, Josef Kittl...
FGR
2006
IEEE
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Preliminary Face Recognition Grand Challenge Results
The goal of the Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) is to improve the performance of face recognition algorithms by an order of magnitude over the best results in Face Recogni...
P. Jonathon Phillips, Patrick J. Flynn, W. Todd Sc...
FGR
2006
IEEE
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Robust Multi-View Multi-Camera Face Detection inside Smart Rooms Using Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Programming
Robust face detection presents a difficult problem in real interaction scenarios, that, in order to achieve, most often requires employing additional sources of information. In t...
ZhenQiu Zhang, Gerasimos Potamianos, Ming Liu, Tho...
FGR
2006
IEEE
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Robust Head Tracking Based on a Multi-State Particle Filter
This paper proposes a novel method for robust and automatic realtime head tracking by fusing face and head cues within a multi-state particle filter. Due to large appearance vari...
Yuan Li, Haizhou Ai, Chang Huang, Shihong Lao
FGR
2006
IEEE
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The Isometric Self-Organizing Map for 3D Hand Pose Estimation
We propose an Isometric Self-Organizing Map (ISOSOM) method for nonlinear dimensionality reduction, which integrates a Self-Organizing Map model and an ISOMAP dimension reduction ...
Haiying Guan, Rogério Schmidt Feris, Matthe...