face expression recognition is useful for designing new interactive devices offering the possibility of new ways for human to interact with computer systems. in this paper we develop a facial expressions analysis and synthesis system. the analysis part of the system is based on the facial features extracted from facial feature points (ffp) in frontal image sequences. selected facial feature poi...

The creation and animation of 3D facial models has depended on animators' manual work frame by frame. Thus, it needs many efforts and time as well as various hardware and software. This paper is aimed at developing a facial expression modeling system based on vector muscle which can produce diverse and realistic facial expressions. 8 standard facial models fitting the characteristics of Korean ...

This paper addresses the problem of simultaneously aligning a batch of linearly correlated images despite large misalignment, severe illumination and occlusion. Our algorithm assumes that the gradient orientation of images, if correctly aligned, can be robustly represented by an underlying transformed principal gradient orientation (TPGO) subspace. With such a linear representation prior, the p...

Social media plays an important role in connecting people and making them interact with each other. Its influence is more direct and stronger to teens, because they are more active and engaged in using social media than other generations. Much research has presented teens’ high use and engagement as well as characteristics in social media; however, the way of analyzing them has mostly relied on...

Age-related changes of jaws and soft tissue profile are important both for orthodontists and general dentists. Mouth profile is the area which is manipulated during dental treatment. These changes should be planned in accordance with other components of facial profile to achieve ultimate aim of structural balance, functional efficacy, and esthetic harmony. Through this paper, the authors wish t...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the variations in the anterior cranial base (S-N), posterior cranial base (S-Ba) and deflection of the cranial base (SNBa) among three different facial patterns (Pattern I, II and III). METHOD A sample of 60 lateral cephalometric radiographs of Brazilian Caucasian patients, both genders, between 8 and 17 years of age was selected. The sample was divided into 3 g...

Facial landmark detection is an essential initial step for a number of facial analysis research areas such as expression analysis, 3D face modeling, facial attribute analysis, and person recognition. It is a well researched problem that has seen a surge of interest in the past couple of years. However, most state-of-the-art methods still struggle in the presence of extreme head pose, especially...

This article contains data related to the research articles "Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Gene Expression during Growth and Fusion of the Mouse Facial Prominences" (Feng et al., 2009) [1] and "Systems Biology of facial development: contributions of ectoderm and mesenchyme" (Hooper et al., 2017 In press) [2]. Embryonic mammalian craniofacial development is a complex process involving the gro...

Background The term facial palsy generally refers to weakness of the facial muscles, mainly resulting from temporary or permanent damage to the facial nerve. Common causes of facial paralysis include infection or inflammation of the facial nerve, head trauma, head or neck tumor, stroke. Objective To outline the incidence of several etiologies and the profile of patients with peripheral facial...