Tracking Faces in Grayscale Video Sequences with "Binary Direction Vectors" - Introduction and Evaluation of Binary Direction Vectors as a New Local Structural Feature for Tracking Faces with the "OpenCV CAMSHIFT Tracker" (Paperback) - Common

This diploma thesis introduces a novel, color- independent feature for image analysis. Furthermore, it describes an application prototype using this feature for face-tracking and its extensive evaluation. The main achievement of this thesis is the development of an alternative, simple and robust basis for face-tracking solutions and other image processing purposes. This novel method allows the enc...