3-D facial expression representation using B-spline statistical shape model

Quan, Wei orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-2099-9520, Matuszewski, Bogdan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-7195-2509, Shark, Lik orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-9156-2003 and Ait-Boudaoud, Djamel (2007) 3-D facial expression representation using B-spline statistical shape model. In: British Machine Vision Conference, Vision, Video and Graphics Workshop, 10-13 September 2007, Warwick.

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Abstract

Effective representation and recognition of human faces are essential in a number of applications including human-computer interaction (HCI), bio-metrics or video conferencing. This paper presents initial results obtained for a novel method of 3-D facial expressions representation based on the shape space vector of the statistical shape model. The statistical shape model is constructed based on the control points of the B-spline surfaces of the train-ing data set. The model fitting for the data is achieved by a modified iterative closest point (ICP) method with the surface deformations restricted to the es-timated shape space. The proposed method is fully automated and tested on the synthetic 3-D facial data with various facial expressions. Experimental results show that the proposed 3-D facial expression representation can be potentially used for practical applications.


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