Robust shape-based head tracking

Yunshu Hou, Hichem Sahli, Ravyse Ilse, Yanning Zhang, Rongchun Zhao

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Abstract

This work presents a new method to automatically locate frontal facial feature points under large scene variations (illumination, pose and facial expressions). First, we use a kernel-based tracker to detect and track the facial region in an image sequence. Then the results of the face tracking, i.e. face region and face pose, are used to constrain prominent facial feature detection and tracking. In our case, eyes and mouth corners are considered as prominent facial features. In a final step, we propose an improvement to the Bayesian Tangent Shape Model for the detection and tracking of the full shape model. A constrained regularization algorithm is proposed using the head pose and the accurately aligned prominent features to constrain the deformation parameters of the shape model. Extensive experiments demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of our proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems - 9th International Conference, ACIVS 2007, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages340-351
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783540746065
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event9th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2007 - Delft, Netherlands
Duration: 28 Aug 200731 Aug 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4678 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2007
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityDelft
Period28/08/0731/08/07

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