Constrained Phase---Based Personalized Facial Feature Tracking

  • Authors:
  • Mohamed Dahmane;Jean Meunier

  • Affiliations:
  • DIRO, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7;DIRO, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7

  • Venue:
  • ACIVS '08 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This work presents a technique for automatic personalized facial features localization and tracking. The approach uses a set of subgraphs corresponding to the face deformable parts which are attached to a main subgraph with nodes consisting of more stable features, some of these nodes represent the anchor points of the more deformable subgraphs. At the node level, accurate positions are obtained by employing a Gabor phase---based disparity estimation technique. We used a modified formulation in which we have introduced a conditional disparity estimation procedure and a confidence measure as a similarity function that includes a phase difference term. A collection of trained graphs that were captured from different face deformations, are employed to correct the subgraph nodes tracking errors. Experimental results show that the facial feature points can be tracked with sufficient precision by establishing an effective self---correcting mechanism.