Title
Evaluating Multi-task Learning for Multi-view Head-Pose Classification in Interactive Environments
Abstract
Social attention behavior offers vital cues towards inferring one's personality traits from interactive settings such as round-table meetings and cocktail parties. Head orientation is typically employed as a proxy for determining the social attention direction when faces are captured at low-resolution. Recently, multi-task learning has been proposed to robustly compute head pose under perspective and scale-based facial appearance variations when multiple, distant and large field-of-view cameras are employed for visual analysis in smart-room applications. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of an SVM-based MTL (SVM+MTL) framework with various facial descriptors (KL, HOG, LBP, etc.). The KL+HOG feature combination is found to produce the best classification performance, with SVM+MTL outperforming classical SVM irrespective of the feature used.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICPR.2014.717
ICPR
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
facial descriptors,kl+hog feature combination,human computer interaction,large field-of-view cameras,multiview head-pose classification,learning (artificial intelligence),head orientation,image resolution,svm-based mtl framework,cocktail parties,smart-room applications,pose estimation,image classification,vital cues,cameras,scale-based facial appearance variations,social attention behavior,interactive environments,visual analysis,interactive systems,social sciences computing,round-table meetings,support vector machines,multitask learning evaluation
Conference
1051-4651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yan Yan169131.13
Ramanathan Subramanian246122.16
Elisa Ricci 00023139373.75
Oswald Lanz446233.34
Nicu Sebe57013403.03