EM enhancement of 3D head pose estimated by point at infinity

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1864-1874

  Wang, Jian Gang ^a   Sung, Eric ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Expectation maximisation algorithm; Head pose; Model adaptation; Vanishing point

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EXPECTATION-MAXIMISATION ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; HEAD POSE; MODEL ADAPTATION; VANISHING POINTS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 34548294613     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2005.12.017     Document Type: Article

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