SpecTracle: Wearable Facial Motion Tracking from Unobtrusive Peripheral Cameras

Facial motion tracking in head-mounted displays (HMD) has the potential to enable immersive "face-to-face" interaction in a virtual environment. However, current works on facial tracking are not suitable for unobtrusive augmented reality (AR) glasses or do not have the ability to track arb...

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Main Authors:	Xuan, Yinan, Viswanath, Varun, Chu, Sunny, Bartolf, Owen, Echterhoff, Jessica, Wang, Edward
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	14-08-2023
Subjects:	Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction
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Summary:	Facial motion tracking in head-mounted displays (HMD) has the potential to enable immersive "face-to-face" interaction in a virtual environment. However, current works on facial tracking are not suitable for unobtrusive augmented reality (AR) glasses or do not have the ability to track arbitrary facial movements. In this work, we demonstrate a novel system called SpecTracle that tracks a user's facial motions using two wide-angle cameras mounted right next to the visor of a Hololens. Avoiding the usage of cameras extended in front of the face, our system greatly improves the feasibility to integrate full-face tracking into a low-profile form factor. We also demonstrate that a neural network-based model processing the wide-angle cameras can run in real-time at 24 frames per second (fps) on a mobile GPU and track independent facial movement for different parts of the face with a user-independent model. Using a short personalized calibration, the system improves its tracking performance by 42.3% compared to the user-independent model.
DOI:	10.48550/arxiv.2308.07502