Moving vehicle’s driver’s Fatigueness is of prime concern for long and safe drive. Fatigueness can be estimated by observing the facial expression. The said problem may be thought of analysis of driver’s facial expression in wavelet domain using entropy of low frequency and high frequency sub band of the facial image. Further, the video movie of the driver may be decomposed into images as frame...

This paper describes a method to extract facial features from front and side views for 3D facial model creation by modifying a 3D generic head model. Front and side views of a person's face are taken simultaneously by two cameras under the same geometric condition. The side view (profile) is first analyzed using a DP template matching to extract vertical locations of nose and mouth. Then, by us...

In the paper, a methodology for individual face synthesis using given orthogonal photos is proposed. And an integrated speech-driven facial animation system is presented. Firstly, in order to capture given subject’s personal facial configuration, a novel coarse-to-fine strategy based on facial texture and deformable template is proposed to localize some facial feature points in the image of fro...

introduction: we present a retrospective two-center study series and discussion of the current literature to assess the benefits of facial nerve monitoring during parotidectomy. materials and methods: from 2007 to 2012, 128 parotidectomies were performed in 125 patients. of these, 47 procedures were performed without facial nerve monitoring (group 1) and 81 with facial nerve monitoring (group 2...

In this paper, we present a 3D facial model compliant with MPEG-4 specifications; our aim was the realization of an animated model able to simulate in a rapid and believable manner the dynamics aspect of the human face. We have realized a Simple Facial Animation Engine (SFAE) where the 3D proprietary facial model has the look of a young woman: “Greta". Greta is the core of an MPEG-4 decoder and...

Angle Class III malocclusion is characterized by anteroposterior dental discrepancy which might be associated or not with skeletal changes. Class III molar relationship is associated with vertical or lingually tipped mandibular incisors and a usually concave profile. These characteristics seriously affect facial esthetics and most frequently are the reason why patients seek orthodontic treatmen...