Adjusting Shape Parameters Using Model-Based Optical Flow Residuals

  • Authors:
  • Douglas DeCarlo;Dimitris Metaxas

  • Affiliations:
  • The State Univ., of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ;The State Univ., of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a method for estimating the shape of a deformable model using the least-squares residuals from a model-based optical flow computation. This method is built on top of an estimation framework using optical flow and image features, where optical flow affects only the motion parameters of the model. Using the results of this computation, our new method adjusts all of the parameters so that the residuals from the flow computation are minimized. We present face tracking experiments that demonstrate that this method obtains a better estimate of shape compared to related frameworks.