DISTANCE MAPS: A ROBUST ILLUMINATION PREPROCESSING FOR ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS

Sylvain Le Gallou, Gaspard Breton, Christophe Garcia, Renaud Séguier

2006

Abstract

Methods of deformable appearance models are useful for realistically modelling shapes and textures of visual objects for reconstruction. A first application can be the fine analysis of face gestures and expressions from videos, as deformable appearance models make it possible to automatically and robustly locate several points of interest in face images. That opens development prospects of technologies in many applications like video coding of faces for videophony, animation of synthetic faces, word visual recognition, expressions and emo- tions analysis, tracking and recognition of faces. However, these methods are not very robust to variations in the illumination conditions, which are expectable in non constrained conditions. This article describes a robust preprocessing method designed to enhance the performances of deformable models methods in the case of lighting variations. The proposed preprocessing is applied to the Active Appearance Models (AAM). More precisely, the contribution consists in replacing texture images (pixels) by distance maps as input of the deformable appearance models methods. The distance maps are images containing information about the distance between edges in the original object images, which enhance the robustness of the AAMs models against lighting variations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Le Gallou S., Breton G., Garcia C. and Séguier R. (2006). DISTANCE MAPS: A ROBUST ILLUMINATION PREPROCESSING FOR ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 35-40. DOI: 10.5220/0001363500350040

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp06,
author={Sylvain Le Gallou and Gaspard Breton and Christophe Garcia and Renaud Séguier},
title={DISTANCE MAPS: A ROBUST ILLUMINATION PREPROCESSING FOR ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={35-40},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001363500350040},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP,
TI - DISTANCE MAPS: A ROBUST ILLUMINATION PREPROCESSING FOR ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Le Gallou S.
AU - Breton G.
AU - Garcia C.
AU - Séguier R.
PY - 2006
SP - 35
EP - 40
DO - 10.5220/0001363500350040