Facial image processing
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1. A computer-implemented facial image-processing method comprising:
- illuminating a face with multiple different light sources;
measuring range map data from said illuminating;
measuring image data from said illuminating;
deriving a 3-dimensional surface from the range map data;
computing surface normals to the 3-dimensional surface; and
processing the surface normals and the image data to derive an albedo map.
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Abstract
In the described embodiment, methods and systems for processing facial image data for use in animation are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that illuminates a face with illumination that is sufficient to enable the simultaneous capture of both structure data, e.g. a range or depth map, and reflectance properties, e.g. the diffuse reflectance of a subject'"'"'s face. This captured information can then be used for various facial animation operations, among which are included expression recognition and expression transformation.
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1. A computer-implemented facial image-processing method comprising:
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illuminating a face with multiple different light sources;
measuring range map data from said illuminating;
measuring image data from said illuminating;
deriving a 3-dimensional surface from the range map data;
computing surface normals to the 3-dimensional surface; and
processing the surface normals and the image data to derive an albedo map. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A computer-implemented facial image-processing method comprising:
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illuminating a face with illumination; and
contemporaneously capturing structure data describing the face'"'"'s structure and reflectance data describing reflectance properties of the face from the illumination. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer-implemented facial image-processing method comprising:
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illuminating a face with a first polarized light source that is selected so that specularly-suppressed reflective properties of the face can be ascertained;
illuminating the face with a second structured light source that projects a pattern onto the face, while simultaneously illuminating the face with the first polarized light source;
capturing both specularly-suppressed reflection data and structure data from the simultaneous illumination. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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