The human head representations usually are based on the morphological – structural components of a real model. Over the time became more and more necessary to achieve full virtual models that comply very rigorous with the specifications of the human anatomy. Still, making and using a model perfectly fitted with the real anatomy is a difficult task, because it requires large hardware resources a...

Studies of facial ontogeny in immature hominins have contributed significantly to understanding the evolution of human growth and development. The recently discovered hominin species Autralopithecus sediba is represented by a well-preserved and nearly complete facial skeleton of a juvenile (MH1) which shows a derived facial anatomy. We examined MH1 using high radiation synchrotron to interpret ...

This paper presents a new hierarchical facial model that conforms to the human anatomy for realistic and fast 3D facial expression synthesis. The facial model has a skin/muscle/skull structure. The deformable skin model uses a kind of nonlinear springs to directly simulate the nonlinear visco-elastic behavior of soft tissue, and a new kind of edge repulsion springs is developed to prevent model...

The post-mortem resilience of facial creases was studied using donated bodies in order to establish the efficacy of crease analysis for identification of the dead. Creases were studied on normal (pre-embalmed) and bloated (embalmed) cadavers at the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) to establish whether facial bloating would affect facial crease visibility. Embalming was chosen...

The authors describe the functional anatomy of the facial vascular system, using the anastomoses between the facial, maxillary, transverse facial, lingual, and ophthalmic systems to selectively identify the blood flow to a specific territory for embolization and posttreatment evaluation of hemangiomas. In three patients the specific vascular patterns are described and the usefulness of understa...

Facial expression transfer has long been an important topic in computer graphics and vision, driven by applications in character animation, computer games, advertising and more recently, healthcare. However, how to make the synthesized facial expression realistic remains a challenge due to the complexity of human facial anatomy and our inherent sensitivity to facial expression. The current thes...

introduction: panoramic view as a routine dental radiograph has an important role in diagnosis of other facial abnormalities accompanied with dento- alveolar structures. in this case presentation, we discuss this subject and also the efficacy of cone-beam computed tomography in localization of foreign body in complex anatomy of nasal cavity.

Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. 2 School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA. 3 Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 85287, USA. 4 Broad Institute, Cambridge MA 02138, USA. 5 Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), 08003 Barcelona, Spain. 6 Center for Bioarcha...