AN ANALYTIC SOLUTION FOR THE POSE DETERMINATION OF HUMAN FACES FROM AMONOCULAR IMAGE

Pose determination of human faces plays an important role in face reco gnition, gaze tracking, human-computer interaction and virtual reality applications. This paper presents a fast and accurate vision-based ap proach to determine the pose of a face from a monocular image. In this approach, only the far corners of the eyes and mouth in a facial imag e are used. The proposed method can yield an exact and analytic soluti on without the requirement of using any specific 3D facial model, spec ial marks, extra equipment or assumptions. Finally, sensitivity analys is and experimental results are provided to verify the theory. (C) 199 8 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.