Headreader: Realtime motion detection of human head from image sequence

1 January 1992

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Systems and Computers in Japan

Vol. 23 (7) , 78-88
https://doi.org/10.1002/scj.4690230708

Abstract

Human motion plays a very important role in daily communication. If computers can directly read the meaning of human motion, man‐machine interaction will be improved. This paper presents a three‐dimensional head motion detection system called “headreader.” A simple but very fast algorithm is used which exploits the contrast of hair and face to recognize face orientation. The system extracts the head and face area and then estimates the head motion parameters from the change in position of each area centroids. The head motion is computed at nearly seven frames per second on an SUN4 workstation.

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