Determining audience engagement

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory storage;
• and
• a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, the processing unit being configured to:
• determine position data and head pose data for at least some of a plurality of faces in an image;
• separate the at least some of the plurality of faces into a plurality of clusters based upon the determined position data;
• create, for each of the plurality of clusters, a plurality of bins, each of the plurality of bins corresponding to a non-overlapping range between a maximum pose data value and a minimum pose data value;
• determine bin counts for the plurality of bins in each of the plurality of clusters, each bin count being initialized and then being incremented for faces in a corresponding cluster of the plurality of clusters having head pose data between a maximum pose data value and a minimum pose data value for a corresponding bin in the corresponding cluster;
• determine, for each of the plurality of clusters, an engagement value, the engagement value for each of the respective plurality of clusters comprising a total bin counts for the plurality of bins in each of the plurality of clusters minus the lowest bin count for the corresponding cluster, divided by the total bin counts for each of the plurality of bins in each of the plurality of clusters;
• and
• display the engagement value for each of the plurality of clusters.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a set of instructions which when executed perform a method executed by the set of instructions comprising:

• determining position data and head pose data for at least some of a plurality of faces in a received image;
• separating the at least some of the plurality of faces into a plurality of clusters based upon the determined position data;
• creating, for each of the plurality of clusters, a plurality of bins, each of the plurality of bins corresponding to a non-overlapping range between a maximum pose data value and a minimum pose data value;
• determining a bin counts for the plurality of bins in each of the plurality of clusters, each bin count being initialized and then being incremented for faces in a corresponding cluster of the plurality of clusters having head pose data between a maximum pose data value and a minimum pose data value for a corresponding bin in the corresponding cluster;
• and
• determining, for each of the plurality of clusters, an engagement value, the engagement value for each of the respective plurality of clusters comprising total bin counts for the plurality of bins in each of the plurality of clusters minus the lowest bin count for the corresponding cluster, divided by the total bin count for the plurality of bins in each of the plurality of clusters.