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Center for Machine Perception
Czech Technical University
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Dept. of Cybernetics, Karlovo nám. 13
121 35 Prague, Czech Republic
tel:+420 2 2435 7637, fax:+420 2 2435 7385

Real-time Head Pose Tracker

MSc Thesis of Jan Šochman
Supervised by Dr. Jirí Matas
{matas,qqsochma}@cmp.felk.cvut.cz

Availability of cheap video cameras and sufficient computing power of current personal computers make video-driven human-computer interfaces feasible. We have developed an automatic facial feature tracker and head pose estimator.

Design Requirements

• real-time performance
• single cheap uncalibrated video camera
• unobtrusive

Adopted Approach

• robust multi-stage localization architecture
• insensitivity to changes of illumination and background complexity
• real-time tracking achieved

Possible Application Areas

• novel human-computer interfaces
• game and entertainment industry
• help for the handicapped

System set-up

Have a look at tracking examples
(in MPEG format):

• http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/cmp/demos/Tracking/head/0:17-Oct01.mpg short video (17 seconds, 3MBytes)
  http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/cmp/demos/Tracking/head/0:17-Oct01.mpg
• http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/cmp/demos/Tracking/head/0:17-Oct01.mpg long video (1:47, 18MBytes)
  http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/cmp/demos/Tracking/head/1:47-Oct01.mpg

Document available at http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/cmp/demos/Tracking/head/headtrack-Oct01.pdf