3D head tracking and facial expression recovery using an anthropometric muscle-based active appearance model

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Cordea, Marius D ^a   Petriu, Emil M ^a   Petriu, Dorina C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D head; Active appearance model; Anthropometric; Face analysis; Face tracking; Human computer interaction; Model based video coding; Muscle based

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE CODING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRACKING (POSITION);

ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS; FACE ANALYSIS; FACE TRACKING; MODEL BASED VIDEO CODING;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 34648822427     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/imtc.2007.379320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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