Affine real-time face tracking using Gabor wavelet networks

Author

Krüger, Volker ; Happe, Alexander ; Sommer, Gerald

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., Kiel Univ., Germany

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

127

Abstract

We present a method for visual face tracking that is based on a wavelet representation of a face template. The wavelet representation allows: arbitrary affine deformations of the facial image; generalization from an individual face template to a rather general face template; and adapting the computational needs of the tracking algorithm to the computational resources available. The method presented was implemented on a Linux Pentium 450 MHz and runs off-line with 25 Hz, and online using an active camera mount at 22 Hz. We present experimental results on the off-line tests on several common image sequences including the salesman-sequence as well as on the online tests

Keywords

computer vision; face recognition; generalisation (artificial intelligence); image sequences; neural nets; optimisation; real-time systems; target tracking; Gabor wavelet networks; computer vision; face template; face tracking; generalization; image sequences; optimisation; real-time system; wavelet representation; Active contours; Cameras; Computer science; Face detection; Human computer interaction; Image sequences; Linux; Robustness; Surveillance; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

ISSN

1051-4651

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0750-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPR.2000.905289

Filename

905289