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WQuatNet: Wide range quaternion-based head pose estimation

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    2025年4月15日

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  • Redhwan Algabri,
  • Hyunsoo Shin,
  • Ahmed Abdu,
  • Ji-Hun Bae,
  • Sungon Lee

摘要

Head pose estimation (HPE) is a critical task for numerous applications ranging from human-computer interaction, healthcare, and robotics, to surveillance. Most existing methods employ Euler angles as a representation, which often face challenges such as a gimbal lock, especially in full-range rotation scenarios or rotation matrices that require nine parameters. This study introduces WQuatNet, a novel deep learning-based model that leverages the quaternion representation, which uses only four parameters, to avoid this challenge. WQuatNet was designed based on a landmark-free HPE method to predict head poses across the full-range angles of 360 \(^{\circ }\) ∘ from images. Landmark-free methods bypass the need for explicit detection of facial landmarks; instead, they leverage the entire image to estimate the head orientation. The model incorporates a RepVGG-D2se backbone for robust feature extraction and introduces two loss functions tailored for quaternion predictions. Our experimental results on multiple HPE datasets covering both narrow- and full-range angles demonstrate that WQuatNet outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches in terms of accuracy. The performance of the proposed HPE was evaluated using the CMU, AGORA, BIWI, AFLW2000, and 300W-LP datasets. We also perform ablation studies and error analyses to validate the significance of each component of the model.