Monocular head pose estimation using generalized adaptive view-based appearance model

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 754-761

  Morency, Louis Philippe ^a   Whitehill, Jacob ^b   Movellan, Javier ^b  

^a USC Institute for Creative Technologies ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded drift; Differential tracking; Head pose estimation; Kalman filter update; Keyframe tracking; Rigid body tracking; View based appearance model

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; KALMAN FILTERS; MOTION ESTIMATION; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

APPEARANCE MODELS; BOUNDED DRIFT; HEAD POSE ESTIMATION; KEY FRAMES; RIGID BODY; VIEW-BASED;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 76449102309     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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