Generic Active Appearance Models - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
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Generic Active Appearance Models
Project Head: Simon Lucey

Active Appearance Models (AAMs) have been used with great success for subject specific non-rigid face alignment/tracking. Unfortunately, AAMs suffer inherent drawbacks when being applied to faces that have not been seen previously. We refer to this as the “Generic AAM” problem.

At present we are pursuing techniques for non-rigid face alignment based on Constrained Local Models (CLMs) that exhibit superior generic performance over conventional AAMs. Specifically, we have been investigating two flavors of CLMs we refer to as Exhaustive Local Search (ELS) and Robust Convex Quadratic Fitting (RCQF).

Displaying 4 Publications

2009
Jason M. Saragih, Simon Lucey, and Jeffrey Cohn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICCV) International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 1034 - 1041, September, 2009
Jason M. Saragih, Simon Lucey, and Jeffrey Cohn
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2009
2008
Yang Wang, Simon Lucey, and Jeffrey Cohn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
2007
Yang Wang, Simon Lucey, and Jeffrey Cohn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICCV) International Conference on Computer Vision, October, 2007

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