Publications
Tim Sheerman-Chase, Eng-Jon Ong, Richard Bowden. Online Learning of Robust Facial Feature Trackers. In 3rd IEEE On-line Learning for Computer Vision Workshop, Kyoto, 2009. (In press)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{SheermanChase2009b,
author = {Sheerman-Chase, Tim and Ong, Eng-Jon and Bowden, Richard},
title = {Online Learning of Robust Facial Feature Trackers},
booktitle = {3rd IEEE On-line Learning for Computer Vision Workshop},
year = {2009},
address = {Kyoto},
month = {Oct},
abstract = {This paper presents a head pose and facial feature estimation technique
that works over a wide range of pose variations without a priori
knowledge of the appearance of the face. Using simple LK trackers,
head pose is estimated by Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) pose estimation
using the feature tracking as constraints. Factored sampling and
RANSAC are employed to both provide a robust pose estimate and identify
tracker drift by constraining outliers in the estimation process.
The system provides both a head pose estimate and the position of
facial features and is capable of tracking over a wide range of head
poses.},
keywords = {head pose online ransac lk tracking},
owner = {ts00051},
timestamp = {2009.10.26}
}
Tim Sheerman-Chase, Eng-Jon Ong, Richard Bowden. Feature Selection of Facial Displays for Detection of Non Verbal Communication
in Natural Conversation. In IEEE International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Kyoto, 2009. (In press)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{SheermanChase2009,
author = {Sheerman-Chase, Tim and Ong, Eng-Jon and Bowden, Richard},
title = {Feature Selection of Facial Displays for Detection of Non Verbal
Communication in Natural Conversation},
booktitle = {IEEE International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction},
year = {2009},
address = {Kyoto},
month = {Oct},
abstract = {Recognition of human communication has previously focused on deliberately
acted emotions or in structured or artificial social contexts. This
makes the result hard to apply to realistic social situations. This
paper describes the recording of spontaneous human communication
in a specific and common social situation: conversation between two
people. The clips are then annotated by multiple observers to reduce
individual variations in interpretation of social signals. Temporal
and static features are generated from tracking using heuristic and
algorithmic methods. Optimal features for classifying examples of
spontaneous communication signals are then extracted by AdaBoost.
The performance of the boosted classifier is comparable to human
performance for some communication signals, even on this challenging
and realistic data set.},
keywords = {feature selection boost adaboost nvc affect natural conversation},
owner = {ts00051},
timestamp = {2009.10.26},
url = {http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/T.Sheerman-chase/}
}
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Acknowledgements
This work was conducted at CVSSP, University of Surrey, supported by the EPSRC funded Language Independent Lip Reading (LiLiR) Project and in collaboration with the University of East Anglia.

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