The 3D facial kernel: Application to facial surface spherical mapping and alignment

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Abstract

This paper presents a framework for the computation of a novel 3D facial attribute, namely,the face kernel. The first part of the paper exposes the theoretical background related to the kernel computation and demonstrates some properties of the surface kernel. The second part describes two applications of the kernel concept, namely, spherical facial surface mapping and facial surface alignment. This framework has been tested and experimented on real 3D face surfaces. The usefulness of the face kernel is manifested in two aspects: 1)It provides a simple scheme for an optimal spherical embedding in the sense of minimizing the related distortion error. 2) It can be used for an efficient facial surface alignment.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publication2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2010
Pages1777-1784
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2010 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: 10 Oct 201013 Oct 2010

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
ISSN (Print)1062-922X

Conference

Conference2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2010
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period10/10/1013/10/10

Keywords

  • 3D facial surface analysis
  • 3D triangular mesh surface
  • Face kernel
  • Facial surface alignment
  • Spherical mapping

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