This paper proposes a new facial beautification method using facial rejuvenation based on the age evolution. Traditional facial beautification methods only focus on the color of skin and deformation and do the transfo...This paper proposes a new facial beautification method using facial rejuvenation based on the age evolution. Traditional facial beautification methods only focus on the color of skin and deformation and do the transformation based on an experimental standard of beauty. Our method achieves the beauty effect by making facial image looks younger, which is different from traditional methods and is more reasonable than them. Firstly, we decompose the image into different layers and get a detail layer. Secondly, we get an age-related parameter： the standard deviation of the Gaussian distribution that the detail layer follows, and the support vector machine （SVM） regression is used to fit a function about the age and the standard deviation. Thirdly, we use this function to estimate the age of input image and generate a new detail layer with a new standard deviation which is calculated by decreasing the age. Lastly, we combine the original layers and the new detail layer to get a new face image. Experimental results show that this algo- rithm can make facial image become more beautiful by facial rejuvenation. The proposed method opens up a new way about facial beautification, and there are great potentials for applications.展开更多
A fully automatic facial-expression recognition （FER） system on 3D expression mesh models was proposed. The system didn＇ t need human interaction from the feature extraction stage till the facial expression classif...A fully automatic facial-expression recognition （FER） system on 3D expression mesh models was proposed. The system didn＇ t need human interaction from the feature extraction stage till the facial expression classification stage. The features extracted from a 3D expression mesh mod- el were a bunch of radial facial curves to represent the spatial deformation of the geometry features on human face. Each facial curve was a surface line on the 3D face mesh model, begun from the nose tip and ended at the boundary of the previously trimmed 3D face points cloud. Then Euclid dis- tance was employed to calculate the difference between facial curves extracted from the neutral face and each face with different expressions of one person as feature. By employing support vector ma- chine （SVM） as classifier, the experimental results on the well-known 3D-BUFE dataset indicate that the proposed system could better classify the six prototypical facial expressions than state-of-art al- gorithms.展开更多
This article proposes a feature extraction method for an integrated face tracking and facial expression recognition in real time video. The method proposed by Viola and Jones [1] is used to detect the face region in t...This article proposes a feature extraction method for an integrated face tracking and facial expression recognition in real time video. The method proposed by Viola and Jones [1] is used to detect the face region in the first frame of the video. A rectangular bounding box is fitted over for the face region and the detected face is tracked in the successive frames using the cascaded Support vector machine (SVM) and cascaded Radial basis function neural network (RBFNN). The haar-like features are extracted from the detected face region and they are used to create a cascaded SVM and RBFNN classifiers. Each stage of the SVM classifier and RBFNN classifier rejects the non-face regions and pass the face regions to the next stage in the cascade thereby efficiently tracking the face. The performance of tracking is evaluated using one hour video data. The performance of the cascaded SVM is compared with the cascaded RBFNN. The experiment results show that the proposed cascaded SVM classifier method gives better performance over the RBFNN and also the methods described in the literature using single SVM classifier [2]. While the face is being tracked, features are extracted from the mouth region for expression recognition. The features are modelled using a multi-class SVM. The SVM finds an optimal hyperplane to distinguish different facial expressions with an accuracy of 96.0%.展开更多
文摘This paper proposes a new facial beautification method using facial rejuvenation based on the age evolution. Traditional facial beautification methods only focus on the color of skin and deformation and do the transformation based on an experimental standard of beauty. Our method achieves the beauty effect by making facial image looks younger, which is different from traditional methods and is more reasonable than them. Firstly, we decompose the image into different layers and get a detail layer. Secondly, we get an age-related parameter： the standard deviation of the Gaussian distribution that the detail layer follows, and the support vector machine （SVM） regression is used to fit a function about the age and the standard deviation. Thirdly, we use this function to estimate the age of input image and generate a new detail layer with a new standard deviation which is calculated by decreasing the age. Lastly, we combine the original layers and the new detail layer to get a new face image. Experimental results show that this algo- rithm can make facial image become more beautiful by facial rejuvenation. The proposed method opens up a new way about facial beautification, and there are great potentials for applications.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(60772066)
文摘A fully automatic facial-expression recognition （FER） system on 3D expression mesh models was proposed. The system didn＇ t need human interaction from the feature extraction stage till the facial expression classification stage. The features extracted from a 3D expression mesh mod- el were a bunch of radial facial curves to represent the spatial deformation of the geometry features on human face. Each facial curve was a surface line on the 3D face mesh model, begun from the nose tip and ended at the boundary of the previously trimmed 3D face points cloud. Then Euclid dis- tance was employed to calculate the difference between facial curves extracted from the neutral face and each face with different expressions of one person as feature. By employing support vector ma- chine （SVM） as classifier, the experimental results on the well-known 3D-BUFE dataset indicate that the proposed system could better classify the six prototypical facial expressions than state-of-art al- gorithms.
文摘This article proposes a feature extraction method for an integrated face tracking and facial expression recognition in real time video. The method proposed by Viola and Jones [1] is used to detect the face region in the first frame of the video. A rectangular bounding box is fitted over for the face region and the detected face is tracked in the successive frames using the cascaded Support vector machine (SVM) and cascaded Radial basis function neural network (RBFNN). The haar-like features are extracted from the detected face region and they are used to create a cascaded SVM and RBFNN classifiers. Each stage of the SVM classifier and RBFNN classifier rejects the non-face regions and pass the face regions to the next stage in the cascade thereby efficiently tracking the face. The performance of tracking is evaluated using one hour video data. The performance of the cascaded SVM is compared with the cascaded RBFNN. The experiment results show that the proposed cascaded SVM classifier method gives better performance over the RBFNN and also the methods described in the literature using single SVM classifier [2]. While the face is being tracked, features are extracted from the mouth region for expression recognition. The features are modelled using a multi-class SVM. The SVM finds an optimal hyperplane to distinguish different facial expressions with an accuracy of 96.0%.
