Face Fitting using a Genetic Algorithm.

Hunter, D.W.; Tiddeman, B. P.; Perrett, D. I.

Face Fitting using a Genetic Algorithm.

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Date

2010

Authors

Hunter, D.W.
Tiddeman, B. P.
Perrett, D. I.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

The ability to estimate the three-dimensional structure of a human face from a single image has many useful applications, including but not limited to the fields of face recognition, modelling and actors head replacement. Although a lot of promising techniques have been developed in this area a number of significant technical hurdles exist preventing the development of a reliable method to extract three-dimensional structure without human intervention. In this poster we present work in progress on a new technique that should overcome some of the problems associated with the current state-of-the-art methods. We intend to use Genetic Algorithms to search the face space to find a match with a given input image. We hope to show that this method will avoid local-minima problems associated with traditional gradient descent techniques as well as provide a method that locates the position, pose and shape of the face without any user interaction.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:egp.20101031
,
booktitle = {Eurographics 2010 - Posters
},
editor = {Anders Hast and Ivan Viola
},
title = {{Face Fitting using a Genetic Algorithm.
}},
author = {Hunter, D.W. and 
Tiddeman, B. P. and 
Perrett, D. I.
},
year = {2010
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {},
DOI = {10.2312/egp.20101031
}
}