3D user-perspective, voxel-based estimation of visual focus of attention in dynamic meeting scenarios

International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, ICMI-MLMI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Voit, Michael ^a   Stiefelhagen, Rainer ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IOSB   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

dynamic meetings; head pose; visual focus of attention

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; DATA SETS; FAR-FIELD; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; HEAD POSE; HEAD-POSE TRACKING; MEETING VIDEO; OCCLUSION HANDLING; ON-LINE ESTIMATION; SCENE COMPOSITION; SPEECH ACTIVITY; UPPER CORNER; VOXEL-BASED APPROACHES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650943740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1891903.1891966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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