A TECHNICAL SEMINAR REPORT

ON

Robust Real-Time Face Tracking

Using an Active Camera
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the award of the degree of

MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY
IN

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
BY

CH.MAMATHA
Under the Esteemed

Mr.T.VENUGOPAL
Professor

14E21D5502
Guidance of

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

ENGINEERING

VIDYA VIKAS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

(Accredited by NBA, Affiliated to JNTU-H & Approved by

AICTE)
2014-2015

TITLE OF THE REPORT

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the award of the degree of

MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY
IN

EMBEDDED

SYSTEMS

BY

CH.MAMATHA
Under the Esteemed

14E21D5502
Guidance of

Mr.T.VENUGOPAL
Professor

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

ENGINEERING

VIDYA VIKAS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

(Accredited by NBA, Affiliated to JNTU-H & Approved by AICTE)
2014-2015

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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the dissertation entitleROBUST REAL-TIME FACE TRACKING
USING AN ACTIVE CAMERA had done by (CH.MAMATHA(14E21D5502)in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of MASTER OF
TECHNOLOGY in EMBEDDED SYSTEMS is a record of bonafide work done under our
guidance & supervision.
The results embodied in the dissertation have not been submitted to any other University
or Institute to the best of my knowledge for the award of any degree.

COORDINATOR

HOD

PRINCIPAL

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Our sincere thanks to Dr.ANWARULLAH, Principal, Vidya Vikas Institute of Technology,

Chevella for providing this opportunity to carry out the present project work.
We gratefully acknowledge Mr.ANIL, Head of the Department of Electronics and
Communication Engineering, for his encouragement and advice during the course of this work.
Our sincere thanks to coordinator Mr. T. VENUGOPAL Professor, Department of Electronics
and Communication Engineering, for his excellent guidance, constant inspiration and
encouragement in the completion of dissertation.
We would like to express my thanks to all faculty members, staff of department of electronics
and communication engineering, who have rendered valuable help in making this project a
successful one.
Special thanks to my family members & friends, for their support and encouragement. Finally we
thank all those who directly and indirectly helped me in this regard.

CH.MAMATHA
Reg. No. 14E21D5502

Robust Real-Time Face Tracking Using

an Active Camera

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
CHAPTER NO.

TITLE

PAGE NO.

CHAPTER-1

INTRODUCTION

1-4

CHAPTER-2

ACTIVE CAMERA MODULE

CHAPTER-3

RESULTS

10

CHAPTER-4

CONCLUSION

11

CHAPTER-5

REFERANCE

12

ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the problem of facial feature detection and tracking in realtime using a single active camera. The variable pa-rameters of the camera (i.e. pan, tilt and
zoom) are changed adaptively to track the face of the agent in successive frames and detect
the facial features which may be used for facial expression analysis for surveillance or
mesh generation for animation purposes, at a later stage. Our track-ing procedure assumes
planar motion of the face. It also detects invalid feature points i.e. those feature points
which do not correspond to actual facial features, but are outliers. They are subsequently
abandoned by our procedure in order to extract high level information from the face for
facial mesh generation or emotion recognition which might be helpful for Video
Surveillance purposes. The only limitation on the performance of the procedure is imposed
by the maximum pan/tilt range of the camera.