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Vector Quantization Segmentation for Head Pose Estimation

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Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2006 (IDEAL 2006)

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Head pose estimation is an important area of investigation for understanding human dynamics. Appearance-based methods are one of the popular solutions to this problem. In this paper we present a novel approach using vector quantization that adds spatial information to the feature set. We compare this with raw, Gabor filtered and Wavelet features using the Carnegie Mellon PIE database. Our approach shows increased performance over the other methods.

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  1. Research School of Informatics, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK

    José Lopes & Sameer Singh

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  1. Escuela Politécnica Superior, GICAP Research Group, Universidad de Burgo, Calle Francisco de Vitoria S/N, Edifico C, Campus Vena, 09006, Burgos, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

  2. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester, UK

    Hujun Yin

  3. Department of Information Systems and Computation, Technical University of Valencia, Camino de Vera, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Botti

  4. University of West Scotland, PA1 2BE, Paisley, Scotland

    Colin Fyfe

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Lopes, J., Singh, S. (2006). Vector Quantization Segmentation for Head Pose Estimation. In: Corchado, E., Yin, H., Botti, V., Fyfe, C. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2006. IDEAL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4224. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11875581_35

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