Abstract:In order to improve the low rate of head pose recognition under complex background and changeable illumination,in this paper,presented is a method which can efficiently recognize the head pose in image sequence.In this approach,faces with different poses are detected using Adaboost algorithm that ensures extremely rapid face detection,and the face features are extracted using principal component analysis(PCA) which remains the global grayscale features of a frame of image.The support vector machine(SVM),which can achieve a high classification accuracy with a few of labeled training samples,is used to classify the head poses.Lastly,five head poses are adopted to interact with an intelligent wheelchair for disabled people.A set of experiments,having an average recognition rate of 92.2%,demonstrate the proposed method’s real-time and robustness against the variations of illumination.