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Project - Portable 3D Faces for Field Identification of Suspects

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Motivation and Goal

  • Construct a 3D face model based on 2D images or video captured by low-resolution surveillance cameras.
  • Display a 3D face model with face images rendered at different poses, under various illumination conditions, and with different surroundings so as to ease suspect identification.
  • Manipulate the 3D face model to create different facial expressions, to simulate the aging process, to add or remove facial hairs, or to change hairstyles or other decorations.

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  • Stage I:  Train generic (i.e., prior) face model using many examples:
  • 3D mesh model
    1. Collect face images from various poses

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    2. Gather subjects' 3D information by using stereo vision techniques on above poses (or by using laser range scans)
    3. Build generic 3D mesh
      3D face mesh
  • 2D texture model
    1. Collect face image textures for both high and low resolutions


    2. Build generic model (e.g., Markov random field, MRF) for generating texture's missing high-frequency information.
                  
  • 3D mesh & 2D texture
Overlay generic 2D texture onto generic 3D mesh
3D face mesh

  • Stage II:  Synthesize face model from single subject's image(s)
  • Adapt generic 3D mesh using marked points on subject's low-resolution image
    Generic 3D Face MeshAdaptd 3D Face Mesh:
  • Enhance low-resolution 2D texture using trained model from Stage I (simulated)
  • Overlay enhanced 2D texture onto adapted 3D mesh
    3D model with adapted mesh and enhanced texture

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Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Please send them to Todd Stephenson. 

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