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A Study on Real-time Tracking Method of Horizontal Face Position for Optimal 3D T-DMB Content Service  

Kang, Seong-Goo (School of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Lee, Sang-Seop (Samsung Techwin)
Yi, June-Ho (School of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kim, Jung-Kyu (School of Information & Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP / v.48, no.6, 2011 , pp. 88-95 More about this Journal
Abstract
An embedded mobile device mostly has lower computation power than a general purpose computer because of its relatively lower system specifications. Consequently, conventional face tracking and face detection methods, requiring complex algorithms for higher recognition rates, are unsuitable in a mobile environment aiming for real time detection. On the other hand, by applying a real-time tracking and detecting algorithm, we would be able to provide a two-way interactive multimedia service between an user and a mobile device thus providing a far better quality of service in comparison to a one-way service. Therefore it is necessary to develop a real-time face and eye tracking technique optimized to a mobile environment. For this reason, in this paper, we proposes a method of tracking horizontal face position of a user on a T-DMB device for enhancing the quality of 3D DMB content. The proposed method uses the orientation of edges to estimate the left and right boundary of the face, and by the color edge information, the horizontal position and size of face is determined finally to decide the horizontal face. The sobel gradient vector is projected vertically and candidates of face boundaries are selected, and we proposed a smoothing method and a peak-detection method for the precise decision. Because general face detection algorithms use multi-scale feature vectors, the detection time is too long on a mobile environment. However the proposed algorithm which uses the single-scale detection method can detect the face more faster than conventional face detection methods.
Keywords
Face detection; Eye tracking; Sobel edge; 3D T-DMB;
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