Automatic Fitting of a Deformable Face Mask Using a Single Image

  • Authors:
  • Annika Kuhl;Tele Tan;Svetha Venkatesh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia 6845;Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia 6845;Department of Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia 6845

  • Venue:
  • MIRAGE '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Vision/Computer Graphics CollaborationTechniques
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose an automatic method for person-independent fitting of a deformable 3D face mask model under varying illumination conditions. Principle Component Analysis is utilised to build a face model which is then used within a particle filter based approach to fit the mask to the image. By subdividing a coarse mask and using a novel texture mapping technique, we further apply the 3D face model to fit into lower resolution images. The illumination invariance is achieved by representing each face as a combination of harmonic images within the weighting function of the particle filter. We demonstrate the performance of our approach on the IMM Face Database and the Extended Yale Face Database B and show that it outperforms the Active Shape Models approach [6].