Adaptive Linear Regression for Appearance-Based Gaze Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2033-2046

  Lu, Feng ^a   Sugano, Yusuke ^a   Okabe, Takahiro ^a   Sato, Yoichi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

blink detection; Eye; face and gesture recognition; gaze estimation; sub pixel alignment

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; PIXELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAMPLING;

BLINK DETECTIONS; FACE AND GESTURE RECOGNITION; GAZE ESTIMATION; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; RESOLUTION VARIATIONS; SUB PIXELS; UNIFIED OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84937580410     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2313123     Document Type: Article

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