Title :
Motion tracking of the facial components using constraints by the facial muscles
Author :
Saji, H. ; Nakatani, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Shizuoka Univ., Hamamatsu, Japan
fDate :
29 Sep-1 Oct 1997
Abstract :
We propose a method of tracking the continual motions of facial components, such as the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth in time-varying facial images taken by a video camera. The motions of the components are anatomically determined from the motion of a head and the deformations of facial muscles. We propose to use such anatomical knowledge to track the motions of the facial components precisely and efficiently
Keywords :
computer animation; face recognition; feature extraction; least squares approximations; motion estimation; tracking; anatomical knowledge; deformations; eyebrows; eyes; facial components; facial muscles; motion tracking; mouth; time-varying facial images; video camera; Cameras; Eyebrows; Eyes; Facial muscles; Head; Humans; Mouth; Nose; Skull; Tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Communication, 1997. RO-MAN '97. Proceedings., 6th IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Sendai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4076-0
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.1997.647014