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We have developed a head gesture controlled electric wheelchair system to aid persons with severe disabilities. Realtime range information obtained from a stereo camera is used to locate and segment the face images of the user from the sensed video. We use an Isomap based nonlinear manifold learning map of facial textures for head pose estimation. Our system is a non-contact vision system, making...