Facial feature extraction using deformable templates

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Serçe, Hakan
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The purpose of this study is to develop an automatic facial feature extraction system, which is able to identify the detailed shape of eyes, eyebrows and mouth from facial images. The developed system not only extracts the location information of the features, but also estimates the parameters pertaining the contours and parts of the features using parametric deformable templates approach. In order to extract facial features, deformable models for each of eye, eyebrow, and mouth are developed. The development steps of the geometry, imaging model and matching algorithms, and energy functions for each of these templates are presented in detail, along with the important implementation issues. In addition, an eigenfaces based multi-scale face detection algorithm which incorporates standard facial proportions is implemented, so that when a face is detected the rough search regions for the facial features are readily available. The developed system is tested on JAFFE (Japanese Females Facial Expression Database), Yale Faces, and ORL (Olivetti Research Laboratory) face image databases. The performance of each deformable templates, and the face detection algorithm are discussed separately.
Image processing, Pattern recognition systems
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1224674/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13819
Graduate School of Informatics, Thesis

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H. Serçe, “Facial feature extraction using deformable templates,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.
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