Active Shape Models with SIFT Descriptors and MARS

Stephen Milborrow, Fred Nicolls

2014

Abstract

We present a technique for locating landmarks in images of human faces. We replace the 1D gradient profiles of the classical Active Shape Model (ASM) (Cootes and Taylor, 1993) with a simplified form of SIFT descriptors (Lowe, 2004), and use Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) (Friedman, 1991) for descriptor matching. This modified ASM is fast and performs well against existing techniques for automatic face landmarking on frontal faces.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Milborrow S. and Nicolls F. (2014). Active Shape Models with SIFT Descriptors and MARS . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-004-8, pages 380-387. DOI: 10.5220/0004680003800387

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp14,
author={Stephen Milborrow and Fred Nicolls},
title={Active Shape Models with SIFT Descriptors and MARS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={380-387},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004680003800387},
isbn={978-989-758-004-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Active Shape Models with SIFT Descriptors and MARS
SN - 978-989-758-004-8
AU - Milborrow S.
AU - Nicolls F.
PY - 2014
SP - 380
EP - 387
DO - 10.5220/0004680003800387