Head Detection and Localization from Sparse 3D Data

  • Authors:
  • Markus Clabian;Harald Rötzer;Horst Bischof;Walter G. Kropatsch

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th DAGM Symposium on Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Head detection is an important, but difficult task, if no restrictions such as static illumination, frontal face appearance or uniform background can be assumed. We present a system that is able to perform head detection under very general conditions by employing a 3D measurement system namely a structured light distance measurement. An algorithm of head detection from sparse 3D data (19脳19 data points) is developed that reconstructs a 3D surface over the image plane and detects head hypotheses of ellipsoidal shape. We demonstrate that detection and rough localization is possible in up to 90% of the images.