An Intrinsic Framework for Analysis of Facial Surfaces |
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Authors: | Chafik Samir Anuj Srivastava Mohamed Daoudi Eric Klassen |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mathematical Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain, Batiment Euler (A.202), Avenue Georges Lemaitre 4, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;(2) Institut TELECOM, TELECOM Lille1 LIFL UMR 8022, Rue G. Marconi, Cité Scientifique 59650, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France;(3) Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA;(4) Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA |
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Abstract: | A statistical analysis of shapes of facial surfaces can play an important role in biometric authentication and other face-related applications. The main difficulty in developing such an analysis comes from the lack of a canonical system to represent and compare all facial surfaces. This paper suggests a specific, yet natural, coordinate system on facial surfaces, that enables comparisons of their shapes. Here a facial surface is represented as an indexed collection of closed curves, called facial curves, that are level curves of a surface distance function from the tip of the nose. Defining the space of all such representations of face, this paper studies its differential geometry and endows it with a Riemannian metric. It presents numerical techniques for computing geodesic paths between facial surfaces in that space. This Riemannian framework is then used to: (i) compute distances between faces to quantify differences in their shapes, (ii) find optimal deformations between faces, and (iii) define and compute average of a given set of faces. Experimental results generated using laser-scanned faces are presented to demonstrate these ideas. |
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Keywords: | Facial surface Facial shapes Face analysis Geodesic between faces Faces mean Faces deformation |
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