Three-dimensional face recognition in the presence of facial expressions: An annotated deformable model approach

Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Georgios Passalis, George Toderici, Mohammed N. Murtuza, Yunliang Lu, Nikos Karampatziakis, Theoharis Theoharis

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the computational tools and a hardware prototype for 3D face recognition. Full automation is provided through the use of advanced multistage alignment algorithms, resilience to facial expressions by employing a deformable model framework, and invariance to 3D capture devices through suitable preprocessing steps. In addition, scalability in both time and space is achieved by converting 3D facial scans into compact metadata. We present our results on the largest known, and now publicly available, Face Recognition Grand Challenge 3D facial database consisting of several thousand scans. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest performance reported on the FRGC v2 database for the 3D modality.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)640-649
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Volume29
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2007

Keywords

  • Face and gesture recognition
  • Information search and retrieval

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Mathematics

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