Title
Absolute head pose estimation from overhead wide-angle cameras
Abstract
Most surveillance cameras have a wide-angle field of view and are situated unobtrusively at overhead positions. For this type of application, head pose estimation is very challenging because of the limitations of the quality and resolution of the incoming data. In addition, even though the absolute head pose is constant, the head pose in camera view changes depending upon the location of head with respect the camera. We present a solution to estimate absolute coarse head pose for wide-angle overhead cameras by integrating 3D head position and pose information. The work involves image-based learning, pose correction based on 3D position, and real-time multicamera integration of low-resolution imagery. The system can be applied to an active face catalogger to obtain the best view of the face for surveillance, to customer relationship management to record behavior in retail stores or to virtual reality as an input device.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/AMFG.2003.1240829
AMFG
Keywords
Field
DocType
overhead wide-angle camera,absolute head pose estimation,face recognition,virtual reality,head pose estimation,gaze direction estimation,wide-angle overhead camera,overhead wide-angle cameras,image resolution,absolute head,best view,video cameras,surveillance,camera view change,wide-angle field,head tracking,surveillance camera,view andare,tracking,3d position pose correction method,real-time multicamera integration,solid modelling,gesture recognition,image-based learning,overhead position,customer relationship management,active face catalogger,absolute coarse headpose,face tracking,low resolution,field of view,input device,real time
Field of view,Computer vision,Facial recognition system,3D pose estimation,Gesture recognition,Pose,Artificial intelligence,Articulated body pose estimation,Engineering,Facial motion capture,Input device
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2010-3
26
2.11
References 
Authors
11
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yingli Tian14062249.81
Lisa Brown235825.53
Jonathan Connell3528156.71
Sharat Pankanti4857.92
Arun Hampapur51106209.27
Andrew Senior64687260.55
Ruud M. Bolle72116230.26