Computer vision for head pose estimation: Review of a competition

Abstract

This paper studies the prediction of head pose from still images, and summarizes the outcome of a recently organized competition, where the task was to predict the yaw and pitch angles of an image dataset with 2790 samples with known angles. The competition received 292 entries from 52 participants, the best ones clearly exceeding the state-of-the-art accuracy. In this paper, we present the key methodologies behind selected top methods, summarize their prediction accuracy and compare with the current state of the art.