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2004
IEEE
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Head Pose Estimation Using Stereo Vision For Human-Robot Interaction
In this paper we present a method for estimating a person's head pose with a stereo camera. Our approach focuses on the application of human-robot interaction, where people m...
Edgar Seemann, Kai Nickel, Rainer Stiefelhagen
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Authentic Facial Expression Analysis
It is argued that for the computer to be able to interact with humans, it needs to have the communication skills of humans. One of these skills is the ability to understand the em...
Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew, Ira Cohen, Yafei Sun, T...
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Video-Based Tracking of User's Motion for Augmented Desk Interface
This paper presents an overview of our project on an augmented desk interface system called the EnhancedDesk. The EnhancedDesk is equipped with an infrared camera for tracking a u...
Yoichi Sato, Kenji Oka, Hideki Koike, Yasuto Nakan...
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Skin Detection using Neighborhood Information
Skin detection is employed in tasks like face detection and tracking, naked people detection, hand detection and tracking, people retrieval in databases and Internet, etc. However...
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Eigen-Harmonics Faces: Face Recognition under Generic Lighting
The performances of face recognition systems are heavily subject to the variations in lighting. We propose a novel approach for face recognition under generic illumination conditi...
Laiyun Qing, Shiguang Shan, Wen Gao
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Gesture Recognition Using Laser-Based Tracking System
This paper describes a finger gesture recognition system based on an active tracking mechanism. The simplicity of this tracking system is such that it would be possible to integra...
Stéphane Perrin, Álvaro Cassinelli, ...
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Particle Filtering with Factorized Likelihoods for Tracking Facial Features
In the recent years particle filtering has been the dominant paradigm for tracking facial and body features, recognizing temporal events and reasoning in uncertainty. A major prob...
Ioannis Patras, Maja Pantic
FGR
2004
IEEE
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3D Model-Based Hand Tracking Using Stochastic Direct Search Method
John Y. Lin, Ying Wu, Thomas S. Huang
FGR
2004
IEEE
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Tracking Humans using Prior and Learned Representations of Shape and Appearance
Tracking a moving person is challenging because a person's appearance in images changes significantly due to articulation, viewpoint changes, and lighting variation across a ...
Jongwoo Lim, David J. Kriegman
FGR
2004
IEEE
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A Boosted Classifier Tree for Hand Shape Detection
The ability to detect a persons unconstrained hand in a natural video sequence has applications in sign language, gesture recognition and HCI. This paper presents a novel, unsuper...
Eng-Jon Ong, Richard Bowden