Realistic 3D face model is desired in various applications such as face recognition, games, avatars, animations, and etc. Construction of 3D face model is composed of 1) building a face shape model and 2) rendering the face shape model. Thus, building a realistic 3D face shape model is an essential step for realistic 3D face model. Recently, 3D morphable model is successfully introduced to deal...

The problem of 3D face recognition has received a growing interest in the past decades. While proposed approaches have proven their efficiency over renowned databases as FRGC, little work has been conducted on the robustness of such algorithm to the quality of 3D models. In this work, we present a study of the robustness of our 3D face recognition algorithm, namely MS-ELBP+SIFT, to face model d...

3D-2D face recognition is beginning to gain attention from the research community. It takes advantage of 3D facial geometry to normalize the head pose and registers it into a canonical 2D space. In this paper, we present a novel illumination normalization approach for 3D-2D face recognition which does not require any training or prior knowledge on the type, number, and direction of the lighting...

background : improvement of facial beauty is a major reason why patients with dentofacial problems opt for orthognathic surgery. people are eventually judged by their facial appearance by themselves, their friends & family and even surgeons. with the recent developments in technology, we now have a 3d structure that can build and analyze 3d images before & after surgery and review the extent of...

In many face recognition systems, the input is a video sequence consisting of one or more faces. It is necessary to track each face over this video sequence so as to extract the information that will be processed by the recognition system. Tracking is also necessary for 3D model-based recognition systems where the 3D model is estimated from the input video. Face tracking can be divided along di...

3D Face Recognition with Wireless Transportation. (August 2007) Le Zou, B.S., Southeast University; M.S., Southeast University Co–Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Mi Lu Dr. Zixiang Xiong In this dissertation, we focus on two related parts of a 3D face recognition system with wireless transportation. In the first part, the core components of the system, namely, the feature extraction and classi...