During the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia, a large number of patients was treated at our clinic for injuries to the lower third of the face.Approximately, one third of them required reconstruction of large and small bone and soft tissue defects of the mandibula. The incidence of war injuries of the maxillofacial structures from 8% to 17%, according to the literature (1). In the ex-Yugoslavia civil ...

Principle Component Analysis (PCA)-based statistical 3D face modeling using example faces is a popular technique for modeling 3D faces and has been widely used for 3D face reconstruction and face recognition. The capability of the model to depict a new 3D face depends on the exemplar faces in the training set. Although a few 3D face databases are available to the research community and they hav...

Recently sparse representation has gained great success in face image super-resolution. The conventional sparsity-based methods enforce sparse coding on face image patches and the representation fidelity is measured by `2-norm. Such a sparse coding model regularizes all facial patches equally, which however ignores distinct natures of different facial patches for image reconstruction. In this p...

Recently 3D face reconstruction and recognition has gained an important role in computer vision and biometrics research. Depth information of a 3D face can aid solving the uncertainties in illumination and pose variation associated with face recognition. The registration of data that is usually acquired from different views is a fundamental element of any reconstruction process. This chapter fo...

BACKGROUND The reconstruction of major burn and other deformities resulting from significant soft tissue deficits of the face and neck is a continuing challenge for surgeons who wish to reliably restore facial function and aesthetic appearance. A primary problem is deficiency of well-matched donor skin. Other problems include the unique characteristics of facial skin, the fine anatomic nuances,...

This paper presents a new compatible remeshing approach, by morphing with Radial Basis Function based on approximate geodesic distance (G-RBF) followed by a mesh optimization to generate compatible meshes efficiently while approximating the input target geometry accurately. To test the proposed approach, a prototype is implemented to clone expressions onto the personalized 3D face model. A PCA ...

3D face reconstruction from Internet photos has recently produced exciting results. A person’s face, e.g., Tom Hanks, can be modeled and animated in 3D from a completely uncalibrated photo collection. Most methods, however, focus solely on face area and mask out the rest of the head. This paper proposes that head modeling from the Internet is a problem we can solve. We target reconstruction of ...

Introduction e most common malignant tumours of the face are (BCC), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and melanoma. [1] BCC constitutes more than three quarters of skin cancers of the face [2] .Risk factors for BCC include sun exposure, fair skin type, ionising radiation, advanced age, immunosuppression [3] BCCs of the face are almost always curable when detected and treated early, [4] various tre...

Reconstructing a person’s face from its skeletal remains is a task that has over many decades fascinated artist and scientist alike. In this paper we treat facial reconstruction as a machine learning problem. We use separate statistical shape models to represent the skull and face morphology. We learn the relationship between the parameters of the models by fitting them to a set of MR images of...

3D facial analysis attracts much interest recently due to the fact that it provides solutions for mitigating confounding factors in 2D image analysis, such as pose, illumination. On the other hand, it also provides enriched representation with more discriminative depth information for applications such as expression or identity analysis. In this paper, we investigate 3D face reconstruction base...