For human head pose analysis based on videos, pose is usually estimated on the head patch provided by a tracking module. However, head tracking is very sensitive to the large changes of pose. Therefore, this work locates the head patch in the videos by head detection. Firstly, we use the Adaboost algorithm to detect the human head in the video. Secondly, we present a dimensionality reduction method to process the head patch. Finally, we use the nearest neighbor method to estimate the head pose. The experiment results show: accurate head detecting helps to estimate the head pose. This method can be used for complex conditions of accurate head pose estimation.
