NOSE TIP DETECTION AND TRACKING IN 3D VIDEO SEQUENCES

Xiaoming Peng, Mohammed Bennamoun

2011

Abstract

Point cloud data processing is an important topic in geometric computing. One promising application of point cloud data processing is 3D face recognition. With the recent developments of 3D scanning technology, the emergence in the near future of 3D face recognition from 3D video sequences is eminent. Face tracking is a necessary step before the recognition of a face. In this paper, we propose the integration of a nose tip detection method into the process of tracking the face in a 3D video sequence. The nose tip detection method which does not require training nor does it rely on any particular model, can deal with both frontal and non-frontal poses, and is quite fast. Combined with the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm and a Kalman filter, the nose-tip-detection-based method achieved robust tracking results on real 3D video sequences. We have also shown that it can be used to coarsely estimate the roll, yaw and pitch angles of the face poses.

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in Harvard Style

Peng X. and Bennamoun M. (2011). NOSE TIP DETECTION AND TRACKING IN 3D VIDEO SEQUENCES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-45-4, pages 13-22. DOI: 10.5220/0003314900130022

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp11,
author={Xiaoming Peng and Mohammed Bennamoun},
title={NOSE TIP DETECTION AND TRACKING IN 3D VIDEO SEQUENCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={13-22},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003314900130022},
isbn={978-989-8425-45-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)
TI - NOSE TIP DETECTION AND TRACKING IN 3D VIDEO SEQUENCES
SN - 978-989-8425-45-4
AU - Peng X.
AU - Bennamoun M.
PY - 2011
SP - 13
EP - 22
DO - 10.5220/0003314900130022