Fast 3D face recognition based on normal map

• Published in: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2005 Vol. 2; pp. II - 946
• Main Authors: Abate, A.F., Nappi, M., Ricciardi, S., Sabatino, G.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: 3D face recognition; Biometrics; biometry; Color; Face recognition; Facial features; Feature extraction; Geometry; normal map; Pixel; Principal component analysis; Robustness; Shape

This paper presents a 3D face recognition method aimed to biometric applications. The proposed method compares any two faces represented as 3D polygonal surfaces through their corresponding normal map, a bidimensional array which stores local curvature (mesh normals) as the pixel's RGB componen...