Detecting, Tracking and Interpreting Faces: Real-time Tracking of Face Features
A non-intrusive real-time program is developed which detects the eyes and nose of a moving workstation user at a rate of between 10 and 30 Hertz. The program creates a base facility for other
capabilities such as detecting gaze direction and facial gestures, creating face models, and normalizing for face recognition. A skin color model is used along with geometric knowledge about the face and weak assumptions about the lighting. Good results are reported over various conditions, including facial hair, 3D motion, clothing color, and use of eyeglasses. Good performance has been demonstrated with dozens of subjects on a low end SGI workstation with an eye-camera to acquire images.
Our work is directed toward a general capability to detect and track a human face as it moves in a 3D workspace. Having achieved this capability, it can then be used to enable others. For example, 3D pose can be used directly for Human-Computer Interface (HCI) or for evaluation of how humans explore computer displays or virtual environments. An extension of the system that enables to determine into which region on the workstation screen the user is looking is under development. The news system will enable to the user to issue commands to the computer using head movements and gaze direction
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