We consider the problem of head tracking and pose estimation in realtime from low resolution images. Tracking and pose recognition are treated as two coupled problems in a probabilistic framework: a template-based algorithm with multiple pose-specific reference models is used to determine jointly the position and the scale of the target and its head pose. Target representation is based on Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG): descriptors which are at the same time robust under varying illumination, fast to compute and discriminative with respect to pose. To improve pose recognition accuracy, we define the likelihood as a parameterized function and we propose to learn it from training data with a new discriminative approach based on the large-margin paradigm. The performance of the learning algorithm and the tracking are evaluated on public images and video databases.

Learning Large Margin Likelihoods for Realtime Head Pose Tracking

Ricci, Elisa;
2009-01-01

Abstract

We consider the problem of head tracking and pose estimation in realtime from low resolution images. Tracking and pose recognition are treated as two coupled problems in a probabilistic framework: a template-based algorithm with multiple pose-specific reference models is used to determine jointly the position and the scale of the target and its head pose. Target representation is based on Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG): descriptors which are at the same time robust under varying illumination, fast to compute and discriminative with respect to pose. To improve pose recognition accuracy, we define the likelihood as a parameterized function and we propose to learn it from training data with a new discriminative approach based on the large-margin paradigm. The performance of the learning algorithm and the tracking are evaluated on public images and video databases.
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Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11582/17289
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