An Active Illumination and Appearance (AIA) Model for Face Alignment

Fatih Kahraman, Muhittin Gokmen, Sune Darkner, Rasmus Larsen

AbstractFace recognition systems are typically required to work
under highly varying illumination conditions. This leads
to complex effects imposed on the acquired face image that
pertains little to the actual identity. Consequently, illumination
normalization is required to reach acceptable recognition
rates in face recognition systems. In this paper, we
propose an approach that integrates the face identity and
illumination models under the widely used Active Appearance
Model framework as an extension to the texture model
in order to obtain illumination-invariant face localization
Keywordsfaces, aam, illumination, shape, texture
TypeConference paper [With referee]
ConferenceProceedings of the CVPR 2007, IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics
Year2007    Month June
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
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IMM Group(s)Image Analysis & Computer Graphics