Morphable Model of Composite 3-D Faces that Transforms Gender Impression

Accession number;05A0212962
Title;Morphable Model of Composite 3-D Faces that Transforms Gender Impression
Author; OHZU M (Hosei Univ.) YANO D (Hosei Univ.) KOBAYASI T (Hosei Univ.) OKADA Y (Hosei Univ., Tokyo, Jpn) AKAMATSU S (Hosei Univ.)
Journal Title;IEIC Technical Report (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
Journal Code:S0532B
ISSN:0913-5685
VOL.104;NO.544(IE2004 124-144);PAGE.73-78(2005)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.7, REF.11
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;This paper describes an attempt to transform 3-D model a person's face to give a more favorable impression. Faces are first represented as high-dimensional vectors by separating the shape and surface texture information from the 3-D data obtained by a range finder, and their variations among a set of faces are coded by applying principal component analysis. The relationship between the coded representation and its categorization between two opposing classes in a given impression dimension is analyzed to obtain an impression transfer vector by applying the Fisher's linear discriminant analysis. A manipulation of the 3-D face model for transforming impressions is proposed using the impression transfer vector. Experimental results for transforming impressions of the gender showed effectiveness of proposed method. (author abst.)