Effect of sexual dimorphism and averageness on the judgment of facial attractiveness was investigated. Participants (n=114) rated attractiveness of 96 facial photographs with neutral expressions. Principal component analyses were conducted on 80 facial feature points standardized via the generalized Procrustes method. Local regression analysis was used to obtain the distribution of attractivene...

Extracting facial feature points such as eyes, mouth and nose plays an important role in many applications. Most of the proposed methods are base on the geometrical features of images. In this paper, a novel method based on Partial Least Square Regression (PLSR) model is introduced to extract the relationship between the feature point coordinates and gray value distribution in the image. The pr...

This paper addresses the problem of adapting a generic 3D face model to a human face of which the frontal and profile views are given. Assuming that a set of feature points have been detected on both views the adaptation procedure initializes with a rigid transformation of the model aiming to minimize the distances of the 3D model feature nodes from the calculated 3D coordinates of the 2D featu...

This paper presents a feature-based method for matching facial sketch images to face photographs. Earlier approaches calculated descriptors over the whole image and used some transformation and matched them by some classifiers. We present an idea, where descriptors are calculated at selected discrete points (eyes, nose, ears...). This allows us to compare only prominent features. We use SIFT (S...

The study of the interaction between humans and computers has been emerging during the last few years. This interaction will be more powerful if computers are able to perceive and respond to human nonverbal communication such as emotions. In this study, we present the image-based approach to emotion classification through lower facial expression. We employ a set of feature points in the lower f...

Facial features such as lip corners, eye corners and nose tip are critical points in a human face. Robust extraction of such facial feature locations is an important problem which is used in a wide range of applications. In this work, we propose a probabilistic framework and several methods which can extract critical points on a face using both location and texture information. The new framewor...

This paper presents a prototype system, which synthesizes entertainment-oriented cartoon face and translates text message to multimedia animation in mobile phone. While a digital real facial photograph and some text are imputed, a piece of exaggerated facial animation with entertainment will be shown in the phone. Three steps are used to get this entertainment effect: first is the illustration ...

In this paper, we present a novel non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) muscle system for the simulation of human facial expressions and talking animation based on features extracted from video sequences. We construct the facial muscles based on anatomical knowledge and NURBS models. We use 43 feature points to represent facial expressions and apply a lip contour extraction technique to determi...

Constraint Shape Model is proposed to extract facial feature using two different search methods for contour points and control points individually. In the proposed algorithm, salient facial features, such as the eyes and the mouth, are first localized and utilized to initialize the shape model and provide region constraints on iterative shape searching. For the landmarks on the face contour, th...

Recently, studies of human face recognition have been conducted vigorously (Fasel & Luettin, 2003; Yang et al., 2002; Pantic & Rothkrantz, 2000a; Zhao et al., 2000; Hasegawa et al., 1997; Akamatsu, 1997). Such studies are aimed at the implementation of an intelligent man-machine interface. Especially, studies of facial expression recognition for humanmachine emotional communication are attracti...