A facial feature tracker for human-computer interaction based on 3D Time-Of-Flight cameras

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 264-273

  Böhme, Martin ^a   Haker, Martin ^a   Martinetz, Thomas ^a   Barth, Erhardt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D Time Of Flight camera; 3D TOF; AAC; alternative and augmentative communication; facial feature tracking; geometric features; head mouse; head tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 51849119475     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2008.021289     Document Type: Article

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