An Improved AAM Method for Extracting Human Facial Features

Active appearance model is a statistically parametrical model, which is widely used to extract human facial features and recognition. However, intensity values used in original AAM cannot provide enough information for image texture, which will lead to a larger error or a failure fitting of AAM. In...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tao Zhou, Xiao-Jun Wu, Tao Wu, Zhen-Hua Feng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/643562