Locating and Tracking of Human Faces with Neural Networks
H. M. Hunke · 1994
Effective Human--to--Human communication involves both auditory and visual modalities, providing robustness and naturalness in realistic communication situations. Recent efforts at our lab are aimed at providing such multimodal capabilities for human-machine communication as well by introducing gesture, character and speech recognition, eye-tracking and lipreading. Most of the visual modalities require a stable image of a speaker's face. In this technical report a connectionist face tracker is proposed that manipulates camera orientation and zoom, to keep a person's face located at all times in an image sequence. The system operates in real time and can adapt rapidly to different lighting conditions, different cameras and faces, making it robust against environmental variability. Extensions and integration of the system with a multimodal interface will be presented. Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Overview on the Face Tracking System : : : : : : : : : : : : : 2 1.2 Approach and Chapte...