%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Saturday 21 December 2024 04:45:53 PM @ARTICLE{Ba_IEEESMC-B_2008, author = {Ba, Sil{\`{e}}ye O. and Odobez, Jean-Marc}, projects = {Idiap, AMIDA, IM2, VACE}, month = {2}, title = {Recognizing Human Visual Focus of Attention from Head Pose in Meetings}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics, Part-B}, volume = {Vol. 39}, number = {No. 1}, year = {2009}, abstract = {We address the problem of recognizing the visual focus of attention (VFOA) of meeting participants based on their head pose. To this end, the head pose observations are modeled using a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) or a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) whose hidden states corresponds to the VFOA. The novelties of this work are threefold. First, contrary to previous studies on the topic, in our set-up, the potential VFOA of a person is not restricted to other participants only. It includes environmental targets as well (a table and a projection screen,',','), which increases the complexity of the task, with more VFOA targets spread in the pan as well as tilt gaze space. Second, we propose a geometric model to set the GMM or HMM parameters by exploiting results from cognitive science on saccadic eye motion, which allows the prediction of the head pose given a gaze target. Third, an unsupervised parameter adaptation step not using any labeled data is proposed which accounts for the specific gazing behaviour of each participant.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2008/Ba_IEEESMC-B_2008.pdf} }