Title
Sparse Bayesian Regression for Head Pose Estimation
Abstract
This paper presents a high performance ........ pose estimation system based on the newly-proposed sparse Bayesian regression technique (Relevance Vector Machine, RVM) and sparse representation of facial patterns. In our system, after localizing 20 key facial points, sparse features of these points are extracted to represent facial property, and then..RVM is utilized to learn the relation between the sparse representation and yaw and pitch angle. Because RVM requires only a very few kernel functions, it can guarantee better generalization, faster speed and less memory in a practical implementation. To thoroughly evaluate the performance of our system, we compare it with conventional methods such as CCA, Kernel CCA, SVR on a large database; In experiments, we also investigate the influence of the facial points localization error on pose estimation by using manually labelled results and automatically localized results separately, and the influence of different features on pose estimation such as geometrical features and texture features. These experimental results demonstrate that our system can estimate face pose more accurately, robustly and fast than those based on conventional methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/ICPR.2006.1067
ICPR (3)
Keywords
Field
DocType
sparse bayesian regression,conventional method,facial property,key facial point,kernel cca,sparse feature,newly-proposed sparse bayesian regression,facial pattern,estimation system,head pose estimation,facial point,sparse representation,feature extraction,pose estimation,learning artificial intelligence,regression analysis,relevance vector machine,kernel function
Kernel (linear algebra),Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Sparse approximation,Bayesian linear regression,3D pose estimation,Pose,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Relevance vector machine,Kernel (statistics)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1051-4651
0-7695-2521-0
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.84
13
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong Ma11055.71
Yoshinori Konishi2181.55
Koichi Kinoshita3252.82
Shihong Lao42005118.22
Masato Kawade549241.38