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A robust invariant bipolar representation for R 3 surfaces: applied to the face description

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Abstract

In this paper, we intend to introduce a novel invariant curved surface representation under the 3D motion group. It is constructed from the superposition of the two geodesic potentials generated from a given couple of surface points. By sampling this continuous representation, invariant points are extracted from a large neighborhood around these reference points. Different numerical methods are implemented in order to find an efficient approximation in the mean of the shape distance. The inference of small distortions of points positions applied to the reference points is analyzed. We apply the proposed representation to real 3D images. The experimentations are performed on the 3D facial database Bosphorus.

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Ghorbel, F., Jribi, M. A robust invariant bipolar representation for R 3 surfaces: applied to the face description. Ann. Telecommun. 68, 219–230 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-012-0335-6

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