Computer Vision — ECCV 2002

This paper presents a novel algorithm aiming at analysis and identification of faces viewed from different poses and illumination conditions. Face analysis from a single image is performed by recovering the shape and textures parameters of a 3D Morphable Model in an analysis-by-synthesis fashion. The shape parameters are computed from a shape error estimated by optical flow and the texture parameters are obtained from a texture error. The algorithm uses linear equations to recover the shape and texture parameters irrespective of pose and lighting conditions of the face image. Identification experiments are reported on more than 5000 images from the publicly available CMU-PIE database which includes faces viewed from 13 different poses and under 22 different illuminations. Extensive identification results are available on our web page for future comparison with novel algorithms.

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