Title
Unseen head pose prediction using dense multivariate label distribution.
Abstract
Accurate head poses are useful for many face-related tasks such as face recognition, gaze estimation, and emotion analysis. Most existing methods estimate head poses that are included in the training data (i.e., previously seen head poses). To predict head poses that are not seen in the training data, some regression-based methods have been proposed. However, they focus on estimating continuous head pose angles, and thus do not systematically evaluate the performance on predicting unseen head poses. In this paper, we use a dense multivariate label distribution (MLD) to represent the pose angle of a face image. By incorporating both seen and unseen pose angles into MLD, the head pose predictor can estimate unseen head poses with an accuracy comparable to that of estimating seen head poses. On the Pointing’04 database, the mean absolute errors of results for yaw and pitch are 4.01° and 2.13°, respectively. In addition, experiments on the CAS-PEAL and CMU Multi-PIE databases show that the proposed dense MLD-based head pose estimation method can obtain the state-of-the-art performance when compared to some existing methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1631/FITEE.1500235
Frontiers of IT & EE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Head pose estimation, Dense multivariate label distribution, Sampling intervals, Inconsistent labels, TP391.4
Training set,Computer vision,Facial recognition system,Gaze,Regression,Computer science,Multivariate statistics,Pose,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
6
2095-9230
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gao-Li Sang192.28
Hu Chen2978.61
Ge Huang323.07
Qijun Zhao441938.37