Fast and exact bi-directional fitting of active appearance models

Kossaifi, Jean, Tzimiropoulos, Georgios and Pantic, Maja (2015) Fast and exact bi-directional fitting of active appearance models. In: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2015), 27-30 September 2015, Quebec City, Canada.

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Abstract

Finding landmarks on objects like faces is a challenging computer vision problem, especially in real life conditions (or in-the-wild) and Active Appearance Models have been widely used to solve it. State-of-the-art algorithms for fitting an AAM to a new image are based on Gauss-Newton (GN) optimization. Recently fast GN algorithms have been proposed for both forward additive and inverse compositional fitting frameworks. In this paper, we propose a fast and exact bi-directional (Fast-Bd) approach to AAM fitting by combining both approaches. Although such a method might appear to increase computational burden, we show that by capitalizing on results from optimization theory, an exact solution, as computationally efficient as the original forward or inverse formulation, can be derived. Our proposed bi-directional approach achieves state-of-the-art performance and superior convergence properties. These findings are validated on two challenging, in-the-wild data sets, LFPW and Helen, and comparison is provided to the state-of-the art methods for Active Appearance Models fitting.

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RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/760530
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Keywords: active appearance models, Gauss-Newton, forward additive, inverse compositional, bi-directional fitting
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
Depositing User: Tzimiropoulos, Yorgos
Date Deposited: 29 Jan 2016 11:11
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 17:16
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/31443

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