2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Spatio-Temporal Tracking of Faces by Stereo Vision
Authors : Markus Steffens, Werner Krybus, Christine Kohring, Danny Morton
Published in: Computer Vision/Computer Graphics CollaborationTechniques
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This report contributes a new approach for the robust tracking of humans’ heads and faces based on a spatio-temporal scene analysis. The framework comprises aspects of structure and motion problems, as there are feature extraction, spatial and temporal matching, re-calibration, tracking, and reconstruction. The scene is acquired through a calibrated stereo sensor. A cue processor extracts invariant features in both views, which are spatially matched by geometric relations. The temporal matching takes place via prediction from the tracking module and a sixmilarity transformation of the features’ 2D locations between both views. The head is reconstructed and tracked in 3D. The re-projection of the predicted structure limits the search space of both the cue processor as well as the re-construction procedure. Due to the focused application, the instability of calibration of the stereo sensor is limited to the relative extrinsic parameters that are re-calibrated during the re-construction process. The framework is practically applied and proven. First experimental results will be discussed and further steps of development within the project are presented.