Facial expression recognition consists of determining what kind of emotional content is presented in a human face. The problem presents a complex area for exploration, since it encompasses face acquisition, facial fea...Facial expression recognition consists of determining what kind of emotional content is presented in a human face. The problem presents a complex area for exploration, since it encompasses face acquisition, facial feature tracking, facial ex- pression classification. Facial feature tracking is of the most interest. Active Appearance Model (AAM) enables accurate tracking of facial features in real-time, but lacks occlusions and self-occlusions. In this paper we propose a solution to improve the accuracy of fitting technique. The idea is to include occluded images into AAM training data. We demonstrate the results by running ex- periments using gradient descent algorithm for fitting the AAM. Our experiments show that using fitting algorithm with occluded training data improves the fitting quality of the algorithm.展开更多
Active shape models (ASM), consisting of a shape model and a local gray-level appearance model, can be used to locate the objects in images. In original ASM scheme, the model of object′s gray-level variations is base...Active shape models (ASM), consisting of a shape model and a local gray-level appearance model, can be used to locate the objects in images. In original ASM scheme, the model of object′s gray-level variations is based on the assumption of one-dimensional sampling and searching method. In this work a new way to model the gray-level appearance of the objects is explored, using a two-dimensional sampling and searching technique in a rectangular area around each landmark of object shape. The ASM based on this improvement is compared with the original ASM on an identical medical image set for task of spine localization. Experiments demonstrate that the method produces significantly fast, effective, accurate results for spine localization in medical images.展开更多
A key step of constructing active appearance model is requiring a set of appropriate training shapes with well-defined correspondences.In this paper,we introduce a novel point correspondence method(FB-CPD),which can i...A key step of constructing active appearance model is requiring a set of appropriate training shapes with well-defined correspondences.In this paper,we introduce a novel point correspondence method(FB-CPD),which can improve the accuracy of coherent point drift(CPD) by using the information of image feature.The objective function of the proposed method is defined by both of geometric spatial information and image feature information,and the origin Gaussian mixture model in CPD is modified according to the image feature of points.FB-CPD is tested on the 3D prostate and liver point sets through the simulation experiments.The registration error can be reduced efficiently by FB-CPD.Moreover,the active appearance model constructed by FB-CPD can obtain fine segmentation in 3D CT prostate image.Compared with the original CPD,the overlap ratio of voxels was improved from 88.7% to 90.2% by FB-CPD.展开更多
Active appearance model（AAM） is an efficient useful for the subsequent work such as face detection and method for the localization of facial feature points, which is also facial expression recognition. In this paper...Active appearance model（AAM） is an efficient useful for the subsequent work such as face detection and method for the localization of facial feature points, which is also facial expression recognition. In this paper, we mainly discuss the AAMs based on principal component analysis （PCA）. We also propose an efficient facial fitting algorithm, which is named inverse compositional image alignment （ICIA）, to eliminate a considerable amount of computation resulting from traditional gradient descent fitting algorithm. Finally, 3D facial curvature is used to initialize the location of facial feature, which helps select the parameters of initial state for the improved AAM.展开更多
文摘Facial expression recognition consists of determining what kind of emotional content is presented in a human face. The problem presents a complex area for exploration, since it encompasses face acquisition, facial feature tracking, facial ex- pression classification. Facial feature tracking is of the most interest. Active Appearance Model (AAM) enables accurate tracking of facial features in real-time, but lacks occlusions and self-occlusions. In this paper we propose a solution to improve the accuracy of fitting technique. The idea is to include occluded images into AAM training data. We demonstrate the results by running ex- periments using gradient descent algorithm for fitting the AAM. Our experiments show that using fitting algorithm with occluded training data improves the fitting quality of the algorithm.
文摘Active shape models (ASM), consisting of a shape model and a local gray-level appearance model, can be used to locate the objects in images. In original ASM scheme, the model of object′s gray-level variations is based on the assumption of one-dimensional sampling and searching method. In this work a new way to model the gray-level appearance of the objects is explored, using a two-dimensional sampling and searching technique in a rectangular area around each landmark of object shape. The ASM based on this improvement is compared with the original ASM on an identical medical image set for task of spine localization. Experiments demonstrate that the method produces significantly fast, effective, accurate results for spine localization in medical images.
基金National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)grant number:2010CB732505+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of Chinagrant number:30900380
文摘A key step of constructing active appearance model is requiring a set of appropriate training shapes with well-defined correspondences.In this paper,we introduce a novel point correspondence method(FB-CPD),which can improve the accuracy of coherent point drift(CPD) by using the information of image feature.The objective function of the proposed method is defined by both of geometric spatial information and image feature information,and the origin Gaussian mixture model in CPD is modified according to the image feature of points.FB-CPD is tested on the 3D prostate and liver point sets through the simulation experiments.The registration error can be reduced efficiently by FB-CPD.Moreover,the active appearance model constructed by FB-CPD can obtain fine segmentation in 3D CT prostate image.Compared with the original CPD,the overlap ratio of voxels was improved from 88.7% to 90.2% by FB-CPD.
基金The MKE(The Ministry of Knowledge Economy),Korea,under the ITRC(Infor mation Technology Research Center)support program supervised by the NIPA(National IT Industry Promotion Agency)(NIPA-2012-H0301-12-2006)TheBrain Korea 21 Project in 2012
文摘Active appearance model（AAM） is an efficient useful for the subsequent work such as face detection and method for the localization of facial feature points, which is also facial expression recognition. In this paper, we mainly discuss the AAMs based on principal component analysis （PCA）. We also propose an efficient facial fitting algorithm, which is named inverse compositional image alignment （ICIA）, to eliminate a considerable amount of computation resulting from traditional gradient descent fitting algorithm. Finally, 3D facial curvature is used to initialize the location of facial feature, which helps select the parameters of initial state for the improved AAM.
