Facial features determination is essential in many applications such as personal identification, 3D face modeling and model based video coding. Fast and accurate facial feature extraction is still a filed to be explored. In this paper, an automatic extracting algorithm is developed to locate “key points” of facial features. The Delaunay Triangulation/Voronoi Diagram technique well known in comp...

Human face detection plays an important role in application such as video surveillance, human computer interface, face recognition and face image database management. Automatic detection of facial features of image is an important stage of various image interpretation works, such as facial expression recognition, face recognition, facial features tracking and 3D face modeling etc. Detection of ...

To achieve privacy protection on facial image retrieval systems, we propose a method of encrypting facial images with a key produced from facial features. Because facial features vary even for the same person, it is not recommended to use facial features as the cryptographic key. Therefore, we propose a method for generating a key by quantizing the facial features based on entropy. In our exper...

This paper first summarizes our unique method to synthesize facial caricatures using eigenspaces. This method can handle shape features of each facial part and arrangement features of facial parts independently. Then, in order to provide a dynamic lifelike agent based on a synthesized facial caricature, a method to represent mouth shape changes corresponding to speech and a method to give facia...

inherited facial palsy without involvement of other cranial nerves or facial and limb anomalies has been reported rarely in the literature. in the classic mobius syndrome, as a syndrome of rhombencephalic development, in addition to facial palsy, there are bilateral or unilateral abducens palsy, dysmorphic facial features, and limb anomalies. we found 11 patients with isolated facial palsy in f...

This paper proposes an accurate, rotation invariant, and fast approach for detection of facial features from thermal images. The proposed approach combines both appearance and geometric information to detect the facial features. A texture based detector is performed using Haar features and AdaBoost algorithm. Then the relation between these facial features is modeled using a complex Gaussian di...

The six basic facial expressions (anger, disgust, fears, happy, sadness, surprise) which have been recognized in psychology are commonly used for facial expressions recognition research. In this work, we propose intuitive and effective facial features to recognize the six facial expressions by modifying the original facial feature points used by the original Active Appearance Model (AAM). The S...

Deformable models have recently been accepted as a standard technique to segment diierent features in facial images. Despite they give a good approximation of the salient features in a facial image, the resulting shapes of the segmentation process seem somewhat artiicial with respect to the natural feature shapes. In this paper we show that active contour models (in particular, rubber snakes) g...