Recognition Analysis And Tracking Of Faces And Gestures In Real Time Systems

Annotation Twenty-seven papers, representing oral and poster presentations from the July 2001 conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, consider the abilities of computers to recognize and understand human faces and hands. Their real-time capabilities are emphasized. Topics include the reconstruction of movies of facial expressions, 3D face model reconstruction, automatic learning of appearance face models, Eigenfaces, stereo tracking of multiple moving heads, speech intent detection, fast hand gesture recognition, and learning visual models of social engagement. Author index only. c. Book News Inc.