This thesis addresses the problem of how to improve the computer-based methods for forensic craniofacial reconstruction. The aim of forensic craniofacial reconstruction techniques is to estimate the face of a person when only the skull remains are available for identi…cation. From manual to computerised techniques, di¤erent solutions have been proposed for estimating the face from the skull in ...

Face alignment and 3D face reconstruction are traditionally accomplished as separated tasks. By exploring the strong correlation between 2D landmarks and 3D shapes, in contrast, we propose a joint face alignment and 3D face reconstruction method to simultaneously solve these two problems for 2D face images of arbitrary poses and expressions. This method, based on a summation model of 3D face sh...

Low-cost and highly efficient 3D face reconstruction is a significant technique for developing virtual interaction applications. While the Kinect, typical low-cost data collection device, has been widely used in many applications, this work, we propose point cloud optimization method based on Kinect. Based different characteristics of Kinect cloud, diverse strategies were delicately applied to ...

Reconstruction of severe composite defects of the face is challenging for reconstructive surgeons. Despite several reconstructive techniques, the functional and aesthetic results of these patients are not acceptable. As a major organ, face, has an utmost importance in daily life. The specific characteristics of face require not a reconstruction, but a replace with same tissue. With the evolutio...

This paper proposes a method of automatic facial reconstruction from a facial image partially corrupted by noise or occlusion. There are two key features of this method; the one is the automatic extraction of the correspondences ∗ corresponding author Facial Image Reconstruction from a Corrupted Image by SVDD 1213 between the corrupted input face and reference face without additional manual tas...

An interpolation method is presented for the reconstruction and recognition of human face images. Basic ingredients include an optimal basis set defining a low-dimensional face space and a set of “best interpolation pixels” capturing the most relevant characteristics of known faces. The best interpolation pixels are chosen as points of the pixel grid so as to best interpolate the set of known f...

Nowadays exist many different methods of computer assisted face reconstruction. Part of them are based on the deformation of the model face. Article presents this kind of method which incorporates the fast methods of deformation of the triangle mesh and vertices selection. Importance of the forensic face reconstruction with no doubt is known for everyone. When other methods of identification of...

Face recognition with variant pose, illumination and expression (PIE) is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an analysis-by-synthesis framework for face recognition with variant PIE. First, an efficient 2D-to-3D integrated face reconstruction approach is introduced to reconstruct a personalized 3D face model from a single frontal face image with neutral expression and normal illumi...

Annotation Anthropological facial reconstruction is a method, which is used to rebuild lost or unknown features of person ́s face over the skull. The aim of this process, especially in forensic area, is to promote recognition and identification of the unknown individual. The method is based on the fact that particular relationship between morphology of a face and morphology of a skull beneath it...