Face Geometry and Appearance Modeling
Concepts and Applications

A systematic description of modeling face geometry from images, including information on mathematical tools, image processing and computer vision techniques.

Zicheng Liu (Author), Zhengyou Zhang (Author)

9780521898416, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 April 2011

314 pages, 168 b/w illus. 1 table
23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.58 kg

"Whether you are developing facial representations, modeling appearance, working with applications, or surveying the subject, this book is likely to have something for you and is a good resource to have on hand."
Alyx Macfadyen, Computing Reviews

Human faces are familiar to our visual systems. We easily recognize a person's face in arbitrary lighting conditions and in a variety of poses; detect small appearance changes; and notice subtle expression details. Can computer vision systems process face images as well as human vision systems can? Face image processing has potential applications in surveillance, image and video search, social networking and other domains. A comprehensive guide to this fascinating topic, this book provides a systematic description of modeling face geometry and appearance from images, including information on mathematical tools, physical concepts, image processing and computer vision techniques, and concrete prototype systems. The book will be an excellent reference for researchers and graduate students in computer vision, computer graphics and multimedia, as well as application developers who would like to gain a better understanding of the state of the art.

1. Introduction
Part I. Face Representations: 2. Shape models
3. Appearance models
Part II. Face Modeling: 4. Shape modeling with active sensors
5. Shape modeling from images
6. Appearance modeling
7. Joint shape and appearance modeling
Part III. Applications: 8. Face animation
9. Appearance editing
10. Model-based tracking and gaze correction
11. Human-computer interaction.

Subject Areas: Human-computer interaction [UYZ], Image processing [UYT], Computer vision [UYQV], Pattern recognition [UYQP]