Automatic Single View-Based 3-D Face Synthesis for Unsupervised Multimedia Applications

Abstract--Various 3-D face synthesis techniques have been proposed and extensively used in many applications. Compared with others, single view-based face synthesis technology allows unsupervised 3-D face reconstruction without any offline operations. Although many algorithms have been published, automatic and robust single view-based 3-D face synthesis still remains unsolved. In contrast to other methods, the single view-based 3-D face synthesis algorithm conducted in this paper enables automated 3-D face synthesis from an arbitrary head-and-shoulder image with the complex background. The developed system first detects the face using Bayesian skin-tone classification based on only the chrominance component, Cr. Based on the detected face, a few salient facial features, such as the corners of the eyebrows and contours of the eyes, mouth, and chin are in turn extracted using variant algorithms, including a dynamic chin extraction mechanism that will be detailed in this paper. Then, face...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TCSV
• Authors: Yun Sheng, Abdul H. Sadka, Ahmet M. Kondoz
• Keywords: 3-D Face, 3-D Face Synthesis, TCSV 2008, View-based 3-D Face