Face recognition from facial surface metric

Alexander M. Bronstein*, Michael M. Bronstein, Alon Spira, Ron Kimmel

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Recently, a 3D face recognition approacli based on geometric invariant signatures, has been proposed. The key idea is a representation of the facial surface, invariant to isometric deformations, such as those resulting from facial expressions. One important stage in the construction of the geometric invariants involves in measuring geodesic distances on triangulated surfaces, which is carried out by the fast marching on triangulated domains algorithm. Proposed here is a method that uses only the metric tensor of the surface for geodesic distance computation. That is, the explicit integration of the surface in 3D from its gradients is not needed for the recognition task. It enables the use of simple and cost-efficient 3D acquisition techniques such as photometric stereo. Avoiding the explicit surface reconstruction stage saves computational time and reduces numerical errors.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsTomáš Pajdla, Jiří Matas
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages225-237
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)3540219838, 9783540219835
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3022
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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