ESTIMATION OF HUMAN ORIENTATION BASED ON SILHOUETTES AND MACHINE LEARNING PRINCIPLES

Sébastien Piérard, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

2012

Abstract

Estimating the orientation of the observed person is a crucial task for home entertainment, man-machine interaction, intelligent vehicles, etc. This is possible but complex with a single camera because it only provides one side view. To decrease the sensitivity to color and texture, we use the silhouette to infer the orientation. Under these conditions, we show that the only intrinsic limitation is to confuse the orientation q with the supplementary angle (that is 180º - q), and that the shape descriptor must distinguish between mirrored images. In this paper, the orientation estimation is expressed and solved in the terms of a regression problem and supervised learning. In our experiments, we have tested and compared 18 shape descriptors; the best one achieves a mean error of 5:24º. However, because of the intrinsic limitation mentioned above, the range of orientations is limited to 180º. Our method is easy to implement and outperforms existing techniques.

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in Harvard Style

Piérard S. and Van Droogenbroeck M. (2012). ESTIMATION OF HUMAN ORIENTATION BASED ON SILHOUETTES AND MACHINE LEARNING PRINCIPLES . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8425-99-7, pages 51-60. DOI: 10.5220/0003729800510060

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram12,
author={Sébastien Piérard and Marc Van Droogenbroeck},
title={ESTIMATION OF HUMAN ORIENTATION BASED ON SILHOUETTES AND MACHINE LEARNING PRINCIPLES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2012},
pages={51-60},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003729800510060},
isbn={978-989-8425-99-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - ESTIMATION OF HUMAN ORIENTATION BASED ON SILHOUETTES AND MACHINE LEARNING PRINCIPLES
SN - 978-989-8425-99-7
AU - Piérard S.
AU - Van Droogenbroeck M.
PY - 2012
SP - 51
EP - 60
DO - 10.5220/0003729800510060