Real-time head tracking based on color and shape information

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5685, Issue PART 2, 2005, Pages 912-923

  Jeong, Dong Gil ^a   Yang, Yu Kyung ^a   Kang, Dong Goo ^a   Ra, Jong Beom ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Background motion compensation; Color histogram similarity; Head tracking; Mean shift; Region of convergence

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERING; MOTION COMPENSATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BACKGROUND MOTION COMPENSATION; COLOR HISTOGRAM; HEAD TRACKING; MEAN SHIFT; REGION OF CONVERGENCE; SIMILARITY;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 21844465738     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.587343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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