Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (Fg 2000)

Presents nine sessions containing a total of 88 papers from a conference organized to provide a primary forum for current work on machine perception of humans and human actions. Includes papers addressing face detection, face tracking using statistical methods, face tracking, face tracking using structural methods, face recognition, tracking people and recognizing activities, gesture recognition, face expression and gaze direction, structural models, and biological vision and 3D models. Invited talks address such topics as the use of computer graphics to study the recognition of facial attributes, problems in the description and interpretation of gesture in conversation, and other topics. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Lacks a subject index.