Research Article

Head Pose Estimation with Improved Random Regression Forests

Table 1

The accuracy and MAE for different methods on the Pointing’04 database.

MethodMAEAccuracy
Yaw PitchYaw Pitch

WRF [7]7.5°7.8°80.15%78.23%
VRF + LDA [17]11.05°N/A66.95%N/A
SRF [18]9.6°13.9°N/AN/A
LPLS [29]11.29°10.52°45.57%58.70%
KPLS [29]6.56°6.61°67.36%80.36%
MGD [31]6.9°8.0°64.51%62.72%
MLD [9]4.24°2.69°N/AN/A
WSRF (Gabor)6.32°5.92° 84.14%85.41%
WSRF (LBP)6.23°5.65°83.01%85.78%
WSRF (HOG)5.21°4.06°87.32%89.41%
WSRF (intensity)6.54°6.41°83.68%84.86%

N/A denotes that the measure is not available in the paper where the method was proposed (same for the other tables in this paper). For the method SRF, 14 subjects are used to train the random regression forests while the rest subjects are applied for test.