Head Pose Estimation Without Manual Initialization

Abstract

This paper describes a fully automatic system for recovering the rigid components of head pose. It follows the conventional approach of tracking pose changes relative to a reference configuration. Rather than being supplied manually, here the reference configuration is determined by directly estimating pose from the image when the head is close to a frontal presentation. Tracking of pose is done in an intermediate coordinate system which minimizes the impact of errors in estimates of the 3D shape of the head being tracked.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA434817

Entities

People

  • Paul Fitzpatrick

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Euler Angles
  • Grids
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Image Processing
  • Low Resolution
  • Operating Systems
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Recognition
  • Rotation
  • Sequences
  • Shape
  • Translations

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  • Computer Vision.