Head Pose Estimation

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30 shown of 55 papers with code (130 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Fine-Grained Head Pose Estimation Without Keypoints
  2 Oct 2017 14 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified
  Estimating the head pose of a person is a crucial problem that has a large amount of applications such as aiding in gaze estimation, modeling attention, fitting 3D models to video and performing face alignment.
• How far are we from solving the 2D & 3D Face Alignment problem? (and a dataset of 230,000 3D facial landmarks)
  21 Mar 2017 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 15 samples · 11 unverified
  To this end, we make the following 5 contributions: (a) we construct, for the first time, a very strong baseline by combining a state-of-the-art architecture for landmark localization with a state-of-the-art residual…
• Synergy between 3DMM and 3D Landmarks for Accurate 3D Facial Geometry
  19 Oct 2021 4 repositories listed
  Our synergy process leverages a representation cycle for 3DMM parameters and 3D landmarks.
• WHENet: Real-time Fine-Grained Estimation for Wide Range Head Pose
  20 May 2020 4 repositories listed
  The resulting Wide Headpose Estimation Network (WHENet) is the first fine-grained modern method applicable to the full-range of head yaws (hence wide) yet also meets or beats state-of-the-art methods for frontal head…
• Detect Faces Efficiently: A Survey and Evaluations
  3 Dec 2021 3 repositories listed
  However, with the tremendous increase in images and videos with variations in face scale, appearance, expression, occlusion and pose, traditional face detectors are challenged to detect various "in the wild" faces.
• FaceXFormer: A Unified Transformer for Facial Analysis
  19 Mar 2024 2 repositories listed
  In this work, we introduce FaceXFormer, an end-to-end unified transformer model capable of performing nine facial analysis tasks including face parsing, landmark detection, head pose estimation, attribute prediction,…
• Towards Robust and Unconstrained Full Range of Rotation Head Pose Estimation
  14 Sep 2023 2 repositories listed
  Together with new accumulated training data that provides full head pose rotation data and a geodesic loss approach for stable learning, we design an advanced model that is able to predict an extended range of head…
• 6D Rotation Representation For Unconstrained Head Pose Estimation
  25 Feb 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 8 samples · 3 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we present a method for unconstrained end-to-end head pose estimation.
• MOS: A Low Latency and Lightweight Framework for Face Detection, Landmark Localization, and Head Pose Estimation
  21 Oct 2021 2 repositories listed
  Very often, the pose is estimated after the face detection.
• img2pose: Face Alignment and Detection via 6DoF, Face Pose Estimation
  14 Dec 2020 2 repositories listed
  Tests on AFLW2000-3D and BIWI show that our method runs at real-time and outperforms state of the art (SotA) face pose estimators.
• Energy-Based Models for Deep Probabilistic Regression
  26 Sep 2019 2 repositories listed
  In our proposed approach, we create an energy-based model of the conditional target density p(y|x), using a deep neural network to predict the un-normalized density from (x, y).
• Deep Label Distribution Learning with Label Ambiguity
  6 Nov 2016 2 repositories listed
  However, it is difficult to collect sufficient training images with precise labels in some domains such as apparent age estimation, head pose estimation, multi-label classification and semantic segmentation.
• A multimodal dataset for understanding the impact of mobile phones on remote online virtual education
  13 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  This work presents the IMPROVE dataset, a multimodal resource designed to evaluate the effects of mobile phone usage on learners during online education.
• Cascaded Multi-Scale Attention for Enhanced Multi-Scale Feature Extraction and Interaction with Low-Resolution Images
  3 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  This architecture allows for the effective handling of features across different scales, enhancing the model's ability to perform tasks such as human pose estimation, head pose estimation, and more with low-resolution…
• Deep learning and machine learning techniques for head pose estimation: a survey
  12 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that aims to survey HPE strategies based on artificial intelligence, with detailed explanations of the main steps to implement each method.
• Head Pose Estimation Based on 5D Rotation Representation
  3 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  Head pose estimation (HPE) is a crucial problem in computer vision, as it significantly enhances the performance of face-related tasks involving a frontal view.
• 6DoF Head Pose Estimation through Explicit Bidirectional Interaction with Face Geometry
  19 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  This study addresses the nuanced challenge of estimating head translations within the context of six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) head pose estimation, placing emphasis on this aspect over the more commonly studied head…
• On the power of data augmentation for head pose estimation
  7 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  Deep learning has been impressively successful in the last decade in predicting human head poses from monocular images.
• Semi-Supervised Unconstrained Head Pose Estimation in the Wild
  3 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  To alleviate it, we propose the first semi-supervised unconstrained head pose estimation method SemiUHPE, which can leverage abundant easily available unlabeled head images.
• On the representation and methodology for wide and short range head pose estimation
  11 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  We also propose a generalization of the geodesic angular distance metric that enables the construction of a loss that controls the contribution of each training sample to the optimization of the model.
• Appearance-based gaze estimation enhanced with synthetic images using deep neural networks
  23 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  Human eye gaze estimation is an important cognitive ingredient for successful human-robot interaction, enabling the robot to read and predict human behavior.
• 2D Image head pose estimation via latent space regression under occlusion settings
  10 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  Head orientation is a challenging Computer Vision problem that has been extensively researched having a wide variety of applications.
• Real-time 6DoF full-range markerless head pose estimation
  7 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  This study presents a framework designed to estimate a head pose without landmark localization.
• DSFNet: Dual Space Fusion Network for Occlusion-Robust 3D Dense Face Alignment
  19 May 2023 1 repository listed
  Thanks to the proposed fusion module, our method is robust not only to occlusion and large pitch and roll view angles, which is the benefit of our image space approach, but also to noise and large yaw angles, which is…
• DirectMHP: Direct 2D Multi-Person Head Pose Estimation with Full-range Angles
  2 Feb 2023 1 repository listed
  We present comprehensive comparisons with state-of-the-art single HPE methods on public benchmarks, as well as superior baseline results on our constructed MPHPE datasets.
• Domain Adaptation for Head Pose Estimation Using Relative Pose Consistency
  19 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  We propose a strategy to exploit the relative pose introduced by pose-altering augmentations between augmented image pairs, to allow the network to benefit from relative pose labels during training on unlabeled data.
• TokenHPE: Learning Orientation Tokens for Efficient Head Pose Estimation via Transformers
  1 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  To leverage the observed findings, we propose a novel critical minority relationship-aware method based on the Transformer architecture in which the facial part relationships can be learned.
• Ego-Body Pose Estimation via Ego-Head Pose Estimation
  9 Dec 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 2 of 14 samples · 12 unverified
  In addition, collecting large-scale, high-quality datasets with paired egocentric videos and 3D human motions requires accurate motion capture devices, which often limit the variety of scenes in the videos to lab-like…
• Pose-disentangled Contrastive Learning for Self-supervised Facial Representation
  24 Nov 2022 1 repository listed
  Self-supervised facial representation has recently attracted increasing attention due to its ability to perform face understanding without relying on large-scale annotated datasets heavily.
• Shape Preserving Facial Landmarks with Graph Attention Networks
  13 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  Top-performing landmark estimation algorithms are based on exploiting the excellent ability of large convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to represent local appearance.

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