Sparse and Semi-supervised Visual Mapping with the S^3GP

  • Authors:
  • Oliver Williams;Andrew Blake;Roberto Cipolla

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge;Microsoft Research UK, Ltd.;University of Cambridge

  • Venue:
  • CVPR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper is about mapping images to continuous output spaces using powerful Bayesian learning techniques. A sparse, semi-supervised Gaussian process regression model (S3GP) is introduced which learns a mapping using only partially labelled training data. We show that sparsity bestows efficiency on the S3GP which requires minimal CPU utilization for real-time operation; the predictions of uncertainty made by the S3GP are more accurate than those of other models leading to considerable performance improvements when combined with a probabilistic filter; and the ability to learn from semi-supervised data simplifies the process of collecting training data. The S3GP uses a mixture of different image features: this is also shown to improve the accuracy and consistency of the mapping. A major application of this work is its use as a gaze tracking system in which images of a human eye are mapped to screen coordinates: in this capacity our approach is efficient, accurate and versatile.