Title
Using facial symmetry in the illumination cone based 3D face reconstruction
Abstract
Facial symmetry can be used as the prior knowledge to supplement shape information in face techniques such as shadow compensation or pose correction. In this paper, we demonstrate the application of the facial symmetry assumption in 3D face reconstruction. We horizontally mirror non-frontal illumination face images and align them to the original images using rigid transformation and optical flow based non-rigid registration. We observe that the resultant images can be used as reasonable estimates of the images of the face under new lighting conditions. We used them in the illumination cone based 3D face reconstruction of which the original method requires seven face images under different illuminations as input. We reveal that by utilizing the mirrored face images, the illumination cone based 3D face reconstruction can actually be performed by using no more than three differently illuminated face images. Experimental results on the YaleB database show that the reconstructed 3D face model is highly accurate. Fundamentally, the mirrored face images improve the support of the illumination cone which can be useful to not only 3D face reconstruction but also other subspace based face techniques such as face recognition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICIP.2013.6738763
ICIP
Keywords
Field
DocType
image mirroring,facial symmetry assumption,face recognition,shape information,facial symmetry,mirror nonfrontal illumination face images,optical flow-based nonrigid registration,illumination cone,image reconstruction,3d face reconstruction,shadow compensation,rigid transformation,pose correction,image registration
Iterative reconstruction,Computer vision,Facial recognition system,Face hallucination,Object-class detection,Pattern recognition,Three-dimensional face recognition,Computer science,Rigid transformation,Artificial intelligence,Optical flow,Image registration
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1522-4880
1
0.37
References 
Authors
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiansheng Chen127331.28
Cong Xia241.77
Y. Han35114.44
Chang Yang471.84
Guangda Su513320.68