IMPROVING APPEARANCE-BASED 3D FACE TRACKING USING SPARSE STEREO DATA

Fadi Dornaika, Angel D. Sappa

2006

Abstract

Recently, researchers proposed deterministic and statistical appearance-based 3D head tracking methods which can successfully tackle the image variability and drift problems. However, appearance-based methods dedicated to 3D head tracking may suffer from inaccuracies since these methods are not very sensitive to out-of-plane motion variations. On the other hand, the use of dense 3D facial data provided by a stereo rig or a range sensor can provide very accurate 3D head motions/poses. However, this paradigm requires either an accurate facial feature extraction or a computationally expensive registration technique (e.g., the Iterative Closest Point algorithm). In this paper, we improve our appearance-based 3D face tracker by combining an adaptive appearance model with a robust 3D-to-3D registration technique that uses sparse stereo data. The resulting 3D face tracker combines the advantages of both appearance-based trackers and 3D data-based trackers while keeping the CPU time very close to that required by real-time trackers. We provide experiments and performance evaluation which show the feasibility and usefulness of the proposed approach.

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Dornaika F. and D. Sappa A. (2006). IMPROVING APPEARANCE-BASED 3D FACE TRACKING USING SPARSE STEREO DATA . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 310-317. DOI: 10.5220/0001364003100317


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@conference{visapp06,
author={Fadi Dornaika and Angel D. Sappa},
title={IMPROVING APPEARANCE-BASED 3D FACE TRACKING USING SPARSE STEREO DATA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={310-317},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001364003100317},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,
TI - IMPROVING APPEARANCE-BASED 3D FACE TRACKING USING SPARSE STEREO DATA
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Dornaika F.
AU - D. Sappa A.
PY - 2006
SP - 310
EP - 317
DO - 10.5220/0001364003100317