Title
A Robust And Automatic Face Tracker Dedicated To Broadcast Videos
Abstract
Because of their lack of rules, general broadcast videos are more difficult to analyze than news or sport videos. To retrieve human interventions in this context, a robust face tracker is needed. The approach we investigate for face tracking combines three main modules that are a face detector, a region-based tracker and an eye tracker. The region-based tracker relies on a robust parametric motion estimation technique. The eye tracker is based on a Kalman filter. The analysis of the coherence of the trackers output provides an efficient way to detect profile positions and tracking errors. We have thus defined an entirely automatic tracker, able to manage several appearing/disappearing faces, without any a priori knowledge on the image sequence. Experimental results on broadcast videos demonstrate its efficiency to deal with large and rapid motions, occlusions and faces in profile position.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/ICIP.2005.1530420
2005 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vols 1-5
Keywords
Field
DocType
parameter estimation,tracking,face recognition,motion estimation,a priori knowledge,kalman filter,kalman filters,face tracking
Facial recognition system,Computer vision,BitTorrent tracker,Pattern recognition,Computer science,A priori and a posteriori,Kalman filter,Parametric statistics,Eye tracking,Artificial intelligence,Motion estimation,Facial motion capture
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1522-4880
2
0.40
References 
Authors
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elise Arnaud112610.05
Brigitte Fauvet220.40
Étienne Mémin327026.44
Patrick Bouthemy42675286.70