Hallinan P. Two and Three-Dimensional Patterns of the Face 1999 torrent

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The human face is perhaps the most familiar and easily recognized object in the world, yet both its three-dimensional shape and its two-dimensional images are complex and hard to characterize. This book develops the vocabulary of ridges and parabolic curves, of illumination eigenfaces and elastic warpings for describing the perceptually salient features of a face and its images. The book also explores the underlying mathematics and applies these mathematical techniques to the computer vision problem of face recognition, using both optical and range images.
Faces from a Pattern-Theoretic Perspective
Overview of Approaches to Face Recognition
Modeling Variations in Illumination
Modeling Variations in Geometry
Recognition from Image Data
Parabolic Curves and Ridges on Surfaces
Sculpting a Surface
Finding Facial Features from Range Data
Recognition from Range Data
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