ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODEL FITTING UNDER OCCLUSION USING FAST-ROBUST PCA

Markus Storer, Peter M. Roth, Martin Urschler, Horst Bischof, Josef A. Birchbauer

2009

Abstract

The Active Appearance Model (AAM) is a widely used method for model based vision showing excellent results. But one major drawback is that the method is not robust against occlusions. Thus, if parts of the image are occluded the method converges to local minima and the obtained results are unreliable. To overcome this problem we propose a robust AAM fitting strategy. The main idea is to apply a robust PCA model to reconstruct the missing feature information and to use the thus obtained image as input for the standard AAM fitting process. Since existing methods for robust PCA reconstruction are computationally too expensive for real-time processing we developed a more efficient method: fast robust PCA (FR-PCA). In fact, by using our FR-PCA the computational effort is drastically reduced. Moreover, more accurate reconstructions are obtained. In the experiments, we evaluated both, the fast robust PCA model on the publicly available ALOI database and the whole robust AAM fitting chain on facial images. The results clearly show the benefits of our approach in terms of accuracy and speed when processing disturbed data (i.e., images containing occlusions).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Storer M., M. Roth P., Urschler M., Bischof H. and A. Birchbauer J. (2009). ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODEL FITTING UNDER OCCLUSION USING FAST-ROBUST PCA . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 129-136. DOI: 10.5220/0001768701290136

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Markus Storer and Peter M. Roth and Martin Urschler and Horst Bischof and Josef A. Birchbauer},
title={ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODEL FITTING UNDER OCCLUSION USING FAST-ROBUST PCA},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={129-136},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001768701290136},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODEL FITTING UNDER OCCLUSION USING FAST-ROBUST PCA
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Storer M.
AU - M. Roth P.
AU - Urschler M.
AU - Bischof H.
AU - A. Birchbauer J.
PY - 2009
SP - 129
EP - 136
DO - 10.5220/0001768701290136