Real-time stereo tracking for head pose and gaze estimation

• Published in: 4th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2000) pp. 122 - 128
• Main Authors: Newman, R., Matsumoto, Y., Rougeaux, S., Zelinsky, A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2000
• Subjects: Application software; Applied sciences; Artificial intelligence; Australia; Cameras; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer vision; Electrical capacitance tomography; Ergonomics; Exact sciences and technology; Face detection; Humans; Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry; Stereo vision; Uniform resource locators; Computer vision; Head; Tracking; Gaze; Stereo image processing; Stereophony; Vision system; Real time system; Movie camera; Ergonomics; Point estimation; Facies; Tracking(movable target); Man machine relation; Computer system; Face; Stereopsis
• ISBN: 0769505805; 9780769505800
• DOI: 10.1109/AFGR.2000.840622

Computer systems which analyse human face/head motion have attracted significant attention recently as there are a number of interesting and useful applications. Not least among these is the goal of tracking the head in real time. A useful extension of this problem is to estimate the subject's gaze point in addition to his/her head pose. This paper describes a real-time stereo vision system which determines the head pose and gaze direction of a human subject. Its accuracy makes it useful for a number of applications including human/computer interaction, consumer research and ergonomic assessment.