TY - GEN
T1 - A morphable 3D-model of Korean faces
AU - Shin, Ahyoung
AU - Lee, Seong Whan
AU - Bulthoff, Heinrich
AU - Wallraven, Christian
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - A 3D morphable face model represents the complex shape and appearance structure of faces as a compact representation in a vector space. Such a model has proven extremely useful in various fields such as face recognition, facial expression synthesis, face animation, as well as in the perceptual and cognitive sciences. One of the most important steps in creating a 3D morphable model is to establish correspondence between all faces - a highly non-trivial process because of the complex topology of faces. In this paper, we propose to use implicit surfaces for this task, which enables a robust method for establishing dense 3D correspondences. This algorithm is used to build a morphable face model from a large database of Korean faces that were collected. We show that our model is in correspondence with the well-known MPI model so that our face space can be expanded from Asian to Caucasian faces. In addition, with the resulting control parameters of the model, we demonstrate realistic changes of high-level facial attributes.
AB - A 3D morphable face model represents the complex shape and appearance structure of faces as a compact representation in a vector space. Such a model has proven extremely useful in various fields such as face recognition, facial expression synthesis, face animation, as well as in the perceptual and cognitive sciences. One of the most important steps in creating a 3D morphable model is to establish correspondence between all faces - a highly non-trivial process because of the complex topology of faces. In this paper, we propose to use implicit surfaces for this task, which enables a robust method for establishing dense 3D correspondences. This algorithm is used to build a morphable face model from a large database of Korean faces that were collected. We show that our model is in correspondence with the well-known MPI model so that our face space can be expanded from Asian to Caucasian faces. In addition, with the resulting control parameters of the model, we demonstrate realistic changes of high-level facial attributes.
KW - Korean face database
KW - computer vision
KW - facial animation
KW - facial modeling
KW - implicit surfaces
KW - morphable model
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSMC.2012.6378081
DO - 10.1109/ICSMC.2012.6378081
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84872409205
SN - 9781467317146
T3 - Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
SP - 2283
EP - 2288
BT - Proceedings 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2012
Y2 - 14 October 2012 through 17 October 2012
ER -