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Conclusion

We have demonstrated a system which can respond to a user's face in real-time using completely passive and non-invasive techniques. Robust performance is achieved through the integration of three key modules: depth estimation to eliminate background effects, color classification for fast tracking, and pattern detection to discriminate the face from other body parts. We use descriptions of the user computed from the same modalities to track over longer time scales when the user is occluded or leaves the scene. Our system has application in interactive entertainment, telepresence/virtual environments, and intelligent kiosks which respond selectively according to the presence, pose, and identity of a user. We hope these and related techniques can eventually balance the I/O bandwidth between typical users and computer systems, so that they can control complicated virtual graphics objects and agents directly with their own expression.


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Trevor Darrell
9/9/1998