HEAD POSE ESTIMATION IN FACE RECOGNITION ACROSS POSE SCENARIOS

M. Saquib Sarfraz, Olaf Hellwich

2008

Abstract

We present a robust front-end pose classification/estimation procedure to be used in face recognition scenarios. A novel discriminative feature description that encodes underlying shape well and is insensitive to illumination and other common variations in facial appearance, such as skin colour etc., is proposed. Using such features we generate a pose similarity feature space (PSFS) that turns the multi-class problem into two-class by using inter-pose and intra-pose similarities. A new classification procedure is laid down which models this feature space and copes well with discriminating between nearest poses. For a test image it outputs a measure of confidence or so called posterior probability for all poses without explicitly estimating underlying densities. The pose estimation system is evaluated using CMU Pose, Illumination and Expression (PIE) database.

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Saquib Sarfraz M. and Hellwich O. (2008). HEAD POSE ESTIMATION IN FACE RECOGNITION ACROSS POSE SCENARIOS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 235-242. DOI: 10.5220/0001087702350242


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@conference{visapp08,
author={M. Saquib Sarfraz and Olaf Hellwich},
title={HEAD POSE ESTIMATION IN FACE RECOGNITION ACROSS POSE SCENARIOS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={235-242},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001087702350242},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - HEAD POSE ESTIMATION IN FACE RECOGNITION ACROSS POSE SCENARIOS
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Saquib Sarfraz M.
AU - Hellwich O.
PY - 2008
SP - 235
EP - 242
DO - 10.5220/0001087702350242