CNN - Forest Based Person Identification and Head Pose Estimation for AI Based Applications

Face recognition and head posture estimation have aroused a lot of academic interest recently since the inherent information improves the performance of face-related applications such as face alignment, augmented reality, healthcare applications, and emotion detection. The proposed work explores the challenges of identifying people and determining head posture. An analysis of the features produced at intermediate layers by limiting the number of kernals is performed and improved the performance of detecting the person. In addition, the learned features are sent to forest trees in order to determine the exact head attitude of the detected person. The proposed Forest CNN (FCNN) architecture is tested for head pose estimation methods on the Pointing 04 and Facepix benchmark databases.