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In this paper, we draw on ideas from the field of statistical shape analysis to construct shape-spaces that span facial expressions and gender, and use the resulting shape-model to perform face recognition under varying expression and gender. Our novel contribution is to show how to construct shape-spaces over fields of surface normals rather than Cartesian landmark points. According to this model face needle-maps (or fields of surface normals) are points in a high-dimensional manifold referred to as a shape-space. We compute geodesic distances to compare the similarity between faces and gender difference.
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Ceolin, S., Smith, W.A.P., Hancock, E. (2008). Facial Shape Spaces from Surface Normals. In: Campilho, A., Kamel, M. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69812-8_95
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