Consumer products user interface using face and eye orientation

Author

Hongo, Hitoshi ; Murata, Akira ; Yamamoto, Kazuhiko

Author_Institution

Hypermedia Res. Center, Sanyo Electr. Co. Ltd., Gifu, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

2-4 Dec 1997

Firstpage

87

Lastpage

90

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an estimate of face orientation by detecting the eyes and mouth on a facial image. Our purpose is to develop a new vision-based human interface technology that uses face orientation to interact with humans. Our algorithm samples a range of skin colors and dynamically updates feature templates from the current input image. In addition, we estimate face orientation from the relationship between the detected facial features´ positions. As a result, our system determined the correct location of both the eyes and the mouth for all four subjects more than 94% of the time

Keywords

consumer electronics; feature extraction; image colour analysis; user interfaces; video signal processing; consumer products; eye orientation; face orientation; facial features; feature templates; input image; mouth; skin color; user interface; vision-based human interface technology; Cameras; Consumer products; Eyes; Face detection; Facial features; Humans; Infrared detectors; Mouth; Skin; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 1997. ISCE '97., Proceedings of 1997 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4371-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.1997.658358

Filename

658358