Method for estimating locations of facial landmarks in an image of a face using globally aligned regression
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1. A method for face alignment, comprising steps:
- acquiring an image of a face and a set of intitial landmark locations associated with the image;
aligning globally the set of initial landmark locations to a set of landmark locations of a face with a prototype shape to obtain global alignment parameters;
warping the set of initial landmark locations and the image from a coordinate frame of the image to a coordinate frame of the prototype shape according to the global alignment parameters, to obtain warped landmark locations and a warped face image;
extracting features from the warped face image at the warped landmark locations;
applying a regression function to the features to obtain updated landmark locations in the coordinate frame of the prototype shape; and
warping the updated landmark locations in the coordinate frame of the prototype shape to the coordinate frame of the image, to obtain updated landmark locations in the image, wherein the steps are performed in a processor.
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Abstract
A method for face alignment operates on a face image and a set of intitial landmark locations by first aligning globally the initial locations to a set of landmark locations of a face with a prototype shape to obtain global alignment parameters, and then warping the initial locations and the image from a coordinate frame of the image to a coordinate frame of the prototype shape according to the global alignment parameters to obtain warped landmark locations and a warped face image. Features are extracted from the warped face image at the warped landmark locations, and a regression function is applied to the features to obtain updated landmark locations in the coordinate frame of the prototype shape. Finally, the updated landmark locations in the coordinate frame of the prototype shape are warped to the coordinate frame of the image, to obtain updated landmark locations.
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29 Claims
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1. A method for face alignment, comprising steps:
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acquiring an image of a face and a set of intitial landmark locations associated with the image; aligning globally the set of initial landmark locations to a set of landmark locations of a face with a prototype shape to obtain global alignment parameters; warping the set of initial landmark locations and the image from a coordinate frame of the image to a coordinate frame of the prototype shape according to the global alignment parameters, to obtain warped landmark locations and a warped face image; extracting features from the warped face image at the warped landmark locations; applying a regression function to the features to obtain updated landmark locations in the coordinate frame of the prototype shape; and warping the updated landmark locations in the coordinate frame of the prototype shape to the coordinate frame of the image, to obtain updated landmark locations in the image, wherein the steps are performed in a processor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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