Active shape models—their training and application
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Shape Matching and Object Recognition Using Shape Contexts
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints
International Journal of Computer Vision
A Performance Evaluation of Local Descriptors
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A Comparison of Affine Region Detectors
International Journal of Computer Vision
Keypoints derivation for object class detection with SIFT algorithm
ICAISC'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
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Face recognition with partial face images is an important problem in face biometrics. The necessity can arise in not so constrained environments such as in surveillance video, or portal video as provided in Multiple Biometrics Grand Challenge (MBGC). Face alignment with partial face images is a key step toward this challenging problem. In this paper, we present a method for partial face alignment based on scale invariant feature transform (SIFT). We first train a reference model using holistic faces, in which the anchor points and their corresponding descriptor subspaces are learned from initial SIFT keypoints and the relationships between the anchor points are also derived. In the alignment stage, correspondences between the learned holistic face model and an input partial face image are established by matching keypoints of the partial face to the anchor points of the learned face model. Furthermore, shape constraint is used to eliminate outlier correspondences and temporal constraint is explored to find more inliers. Alignment is finally accomplished by solving a similarity transform. Experiments on the MBGC near infrared video sequences show the effectiveness of the proposed method, especially when PCA subspace, shape and temporal constraint are utilized.