Coupled-View Active Appearance Models

Fitting a Single Active Appearance Model Simultaneously to Multiple Images

Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are a well studied 2D deformable model. One recently proposed extension of AAMs to multiple images is the CoupledView AAM. Coupled-View AAMs model the 2D shape and appearance of a face in two or more views simultaneously. The major limitation of CoupledView AAMs, however, is that they are specific to a particular set of cameras, both in geometry and the photometr...

View-Based Active Appearance Models

View-Based Active Appearance Models

Light Field Appearance Manifolds

Statistical shape and texture appearance models are powerful image representations, but previously had been restricted to 2D or 3D shapes with smooth surfaces and lambertian reflectance. In this paper we present a novel 3D appearance model using image-based rendering techniques, which can represent complex lighting conditions, structures, and surfaces. We construct a light field manifold captur...

Multi-view face segmentation using fusion of statistical shape and appearance models

This paper demonstrates how a weighted fusion of multiple Active Shape (ASM) or Active Appearance (AAM) models can be utilized to perform multi-view facial segmentation with only a limited number of views available for training the models. The idea is to construct models only from frontal and profile views and subsequently fuse these models with adequate weights to segment any facial view. This...