The asymmetry of image registration and its application to face tracking

Most image registration problems are formulated in an asymmetric fashion. Given a pair of images, one is implicitly or explicitly regarded as a template and warped onto the other to match as well as possible. In this paper, we focus on this seemingly arbitrary choice of the roles and reveal how it m...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 29(2007), 5 vom: 13. Mai, Seite 807-23
1. Verfasser: Dedeoglu, Göksel (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kanade, Takeo, Baker, Simon
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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