Title
3D face recognition: An automatic strategy based on geometrical descriptors and landmarks.
Abstract
In the last decades, several three-dimensional face recognition algorithms have been thought, designed, and assessed. What they have in common can be hardly said, as they differ in theoretical background, tools, and method. Here we propose a new 3D face recognition algorithm, entirely developed in Matlab®, whose framework totally comes from differential geometry. First, 17 soft-tissue landmarks are automatically extracted relying on geometrical properties of facial shape. We made use of derivatives, coefficients of the fundamental forms, principal, mean, and Gaussian curvatures, and shape and curvedness indexes. Then, a set of geodesic and Euclidean distances, together with nose volume and ratios between geodesic and Euclidean distances, has been computed and summed in a final score, used to compare faces. The highest contribution of this work, we believe, is that its theoretical substratum is differential geometry with its various descriptors, which is something totally new in the field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.robot.2014.07.009
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Face recognition,Landmark,Geometry,3D face,Shape index,Geodesic distance
Journal
62
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
0921-8890
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Enrico Vezzetti115112.98
Federica Marcolin2947.50
Giulia Fracastoro3329.59