Automated Face Analysis: Emerging Technologies and Research

Automated Face Analysis: Emerging Technologies and Research
Author: Kim, Daijin
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1605662178

"This book provides related theoretical background to understand the overall configuration and challenging problem of automated face analysis systems"--Provided by publisher.

Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures

Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures
Author: S. Kevin Zhou
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2007-11-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540756906

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures, AMFG 2007, held within the scope of ICCV 2007, the International Conference on Computer Vision. The papers review the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of face, gesture, activity, and behavior. Topics addressed include feature representation, 3D face, video-based face recognition, facial motion analysis, and sign recognition.

Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures

Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures
Author: Wenyi Zhao
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2005-10-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540320741

During the last 30 years, face recognition and related problems such as face detection/tracking and facial expression recognition have attracted researchers from both the engineering and psychology communities. In addition, extensive research has been carried out to study hand and body gestures. The understanding of how humans perceive these important cues has significant scientific value and extensive applications. For example, human-computer interaction, visual surveillance, and smart video indexing are active application areas. Aiming towards putting such amazing perception capability onto computer systems, researchers have made substantial progress. However, technological challenges still exist in many aspects. Following a format similar to the IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG) 2003, this one-day workshop (AMFG 2005) provided a focused international forum to bring together well-known researchers and research groups to review the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of faces and gestures, to discuss the challenges that we are facing, and to explore future directions. Overall, 30 papers were selected from 90 submitted manuscripts. The topics of these papers range from feature representation, robust recognition, learning, and 3D modeling to psychology. In addition, two invited talks were given, by Prof. Kanade and Dr. Phillips. The technical program was organized into four oral sessions and two poster sessions. This workshop would not have been possible without the timely reviews provided by the members of the Technical Program Committee under a tight schedule. October 2005 Wenyi Zhao Shaogang Gong Xiaoou Tang

Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures

Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures
Author: Shaogang Gong
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2005-10-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540292296

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures, AMFG 2005, held in Beijing, China in October 2005 within the scope of ICCV 2005, the International Conference on Computer Vision. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers give a survey of the status of recognition, analysis and modeling of face and gesture. The topics of these papers range from feature representation, robust recognition, learning, 3D modeling, to psychology.

The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing

The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing
Author: Rafael A. Calvo
Publisher: Oxford Library of Psychology
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2015
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0199942234

"The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing is a definitive reference in the burgeoning field of affective computing (AC), a multidisciplinary field encompassing computer science, engineering, psychology, education, neuroscience, and other disciplines. AC research explores how affective factors influence interactions between humans and technology, how affect sensing and affect generation techniques can inform our understanding of human affect, and on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems involving affect at their core. The volume features 41 chapters and is divided into five sections: history and theory, detection, generation, methodologies, and applications. Section 1 begins with the making of AC and a historical review of the science of emotion. The following chapters discuss the theoretical underpinnings of AC from an interdisciplinary viewpoint. Section 2 examines affect detection or recognition, a commonly investigated area. Section 3 focuses on aspects of affect generation, including the synthesis of emotion and its expression via facial features, speech, postures, and gestures. Cultural issues are also discussed. Section 4 focuses on methodological issues in AC research, including data collection techniques, multimodal affect databases, formats for the representation of emotion, crowdsourcing techniques, machine learning approaches, affect elicitation techniques, useful AC tools, and ethical issues. Finally, Section 5 highlights applications of AC in such domains as formal and informal learning, games, robotics, virtual reality, autism research, health care, cyberpsychology, music, deception, reflective writing, and cyberpsychology. This compendium will prove suitable for use as a textbook and serve as a valuable resource for everyone with an interest in AC."--

Face Detection and Gesture Recognition for Human-Computer Interaction

Face Detection and Gesture Recognition for Human-Computer Interaction
Author: Ming-Hsuan Yang
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461514231

Traditionally, scientific fields have defined boundaries, and scientists work on research problems within those boundaries. However, from time to time those boundaries get shifted or blurred to evolve new fields. For instance, the original goal of computer vision was to understand a single image of a scene, by identifying objects, their structure, and spatial arrangements. This has been referred to as image understanding. Recently, computer vision has gradually been making the transition away from understanding single images to analyzing image sequences, or video understanding. Video understanding deals with understanding of video sequences, e. g. , recognition of gestures, activities, facial expressions, etc. The main shift in the classic paradigm has been from the recognition of static objects in the scene to motion-based recognition of actions and events. Video understanding has overlapping research problems with other fields, therefore blurring the fixed boundaries. Computer graphics, image processing, and video databases have obvious overlap with computer vision. The main goal of computer graphics is to gener ate and animate realistic looking images, and videos. Researchers in computer graphics are increasingly employing techniques from computer vision to gen erate the synthetic imagery. A good example of this is image-based rendering and modeling techniques, in which geometry, appearance, and lighting is de rived from real images using computer vision techniques. Here the shift is from synthesis to analysis followed by synthesis.

Face Processing: Advanced Modeling and Methods

Face Processing: Advanced Modeling and Methods
Author: Wenyi Zhao
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 755
Release: 2011-07-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080488846

Major strides have been made in face processing in the last ten years due to the fast growing need for security in various locations around the globe. A human eye can discern the details of a specific face with relative ease. It is this level of detail that researchers are striving to create with ever evolving computer technologies that will become our perfect mechanical eyes. The difficulty that confronts researchers stems from turning a 3D object into a 2D image. That subject is covered in depth from several different perspectives in this volume. Face Processing: Advanced Modeling and Methods begins with a comprehensive introductory chapter for those who are new to the field. A compendium of articles follows that is divided into three sections. The first covers basic aspects of face processing from human to computer. The second deals with face modeling from computational and physiological points of view. The third tackles the advanced methods, which include illumination, pose, expression, and more. Editors Zhao and Chellappa have compiled a concise and necessary text for industrial research scientists, students, and professionals working in the area of image and signal processing. - Contributions from over 35 leading experts in face detection, recognition and image processing - Over 150 informative images with 16 images in FULL COLOR illustrate and offer insight into the most up-to-date advanced face processing methods and techniques - Extensive detail makes this a need-to-own book for all involved with image and signal processing

Guide to Biometric Reference Systems and Performance Evaluation

Guide to Biometric Reference Systems and Performance Evaluation
Author: Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2009-04-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1848002920

Biometrics has moved from using fingerprints to using many methods of assessing human physical and behavioral traits. This guide introduces a new performance evaluation framework designed to offer full coverage of performance evaluation of biometric systems.

Gesture Recognition

Gesture Recognition
Author: Sergio Escalera
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2017-07-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319570218

This book presents a selection of chapters, written by leading international researchers, related to the automatic analysis of gestures from still images and multi-modal RGB-Depth image sequences. It offers a comprehensive review of vision-based approaches for supervised gesture recognition methods that have been validated by various challenges. Several aspects of gesture recognition are reviewed, including data acquisition from different sources, feature extraction, learning, and recognition of gestures.

Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction

Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction
Author: Annelies Braffort
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2000-01-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540669353

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Gesture Workshop, GW'99, held in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in March 1999. The 16 revised long papers and seven revised short papers were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. Also included are four invited papers and the transcription of a round table discussion. The papers are organized in sections on human perception and production of gesture, localization and segmentation, recognition, sign language, gesture synthesis and animation, and multimodality.