We present a method for learning appearance models that can be used to recognise and track both 3D head pose and identities of novel subjects with continuous head movement across the view-sphere. We describe an automatic face data acquisition system based on a magnetic sensor and a calibrated camera. The system enabled us to obtain systematically a database of face images with labelled 3D poses across a view-sphere of
Shaogang Gong, Eng-Jon Ong, Stephen J. McKenna