Face Detection and Gesture Recognition for Human-Computer Interaction
Authors: Ming-Hsuan Yang, Ahuja, Narendra
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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.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-5
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Detecting Faces in Still Images
Pages 7-52
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Recognizing Hand Gestures Using Motion Trajectories
Pages 53-81
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Skin Color Model
Pages 83-95
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Face Detection Using Multimodal Density Models
Pages 97-122
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Face Detection and Gesture Recognition for Human-Computer Interaction
- Authors
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- Ming-Hsuan Yang
- Narendra Ahuja
- Series Title
- The International Series in Video Computing
- Series Volume
- 1
- Copyright
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4615-1423-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4615-1423-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-7409-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4613-5546-5
- Series ISSN
- 1571-5205
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 182
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