Patent №
US 8,339,459
Granted
2012-12-25
Filed 2009
Owner
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
2
vision · kr
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12561154
Techniques and technologies for tracking a face with a plurality of cameras wherein a geometry between the cameras is initially unknown. One disclosed method includes detecting a head with two of the cameras and registering a head model with the image of the head (as detected by one of the cameras). The method also includes back projecting the other detected face image to the head model and determining a head pose from the back-projected head image. Furthermore, the determined geometry is used to track the face with at least one of the cameras.
AI classification
Ownership
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
assignment · 235880803
Assignors
ZHANG, ZHENGYOU, SANKARANARAYANAN, ASWIN, ZHANG, QING, LIU, ZICHENG, CAI, QIN
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.