3D head pose recovery for interactive virtual reality avatars

Author

Cordea, M.D. ; Petriu, E.M. ; Georganas, N.D. ; Petriu, D.C. ; Whalen, T.E.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

21-23 May 2001

Firstpage

72

Abstract

This paper discusses a 3D tracking method allowing real-time recovery of the 3D position and orientation of a moving head. The described method uses a 3D wireframe model of the head, a 2D feature-based matching algorithm, and an extended Kalman filter estimator. The resulting motion tracking system works in a realistic environment without makeup on the face, with uncalibrated camera, and unknown fighting conditions and background

Keywords

Kalman filters; feature extraction; image sequences; motion estimation; tracking filters; video coding; virtual reality; 2D feature-based matching algorithm; 3D head pose recovery; 3D orientation; 3D position; 3D tracking method; 3D wireframe model; extended Kalman filter estimator; interactive virtual reality avatars; model based video coding; motion tracking system; moving head; rapid calibration; real-time recovery; state equation; structure-form-motion problem; uncalibrated camera; unknown fighting conditions; Avatars; Cameras; Coordinate measuring machines; Face detection; Geometry; Head; Motion estimation; Motion measurement; Tracking; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6646-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2001.928790

Filename

928790