Learning 3d AAM fitting with kernel methods

  • Authors:
  • Marina A. Cidota;Dragos Datcu;Leon J. M. Rothkrantz

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;Netherlands Defense Academy, Den Helder, The Netherlands;Netherlands Defense Academy, Den Helder, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICAISC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The active appearance model (AAM) has proven to be a powerful tool for modeling deformable visual objects. AAMs are nonlinear parametric models in terms of the relation between the pixel intensities and the parameters of the model. In this paper, we propose a fitting procedure for a 3D AAM based on kernel methods for regression. The use of kernel functions provides a powerful way of detecting nonlinear relations using linear algorithms in an appropriate feature space. For analysis, we have chosen the relevance vector machines (RVM) and the kernel ridge method. The statistics computed on data generated with our 3D AAM implementation show that the kernel methods give better results compared to the linear regression models. Although they are less computational efficient, due to their higher accuracy the kernel methods have the advantage of reducing the searching space for the 3D AAM fitting algorithm.