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Three-dimensional face analysis via new geometrical descriptors

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3D face was recently investigated for various applications, including biometrics and diagnosis. Describing facial surface, i.e. how it bends and which kinds of patches is composed by, is the aim of studies in Face Analysis, whose ultimate goal is to identify which features could be extracted from three-dimensional faces depending on the application. In this study, we propose 54 novel geometrical descriptors for Face Analysis. They are generated by composing primary geometrical descriptors such as mean, Gaussian, principal curvatures, shape index, curvedness, and the coefficients of the fundamental forms. The new descriptors were mapped on 217 facial depth maps and analysed in terms of descriptiveness of facial shape and exploitability for localizing landmark points. Automatic landmark extraction stands as the final aim of this analysis. Results showed that the newly generated descriptors are suitable to 3D face description and to support landmark localization procedures.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale e della Produzione, Politecnico di Torino, corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy

    Federica MARCOLIN, Maria Grazia VIOLANTE, Sandro MOOS, Enrico VEZZETTI, Stefano TORNINCASA & Nicole DAGNES

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Viale dell’Università, 03043, Cassino, Italy

    Domenico SPERANZA

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  1. Université de Technologie de Compiègne , Compiègne, France

    Benoit Eynard

  2. Dip di Ingegneria Chimica, Gest,Info,Mec, Università degli Studi di Palermo Dip di Ingegneria Chimica, Gest,Info,Mec, Palermo, Italy

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  3. Dip di Ing, Elet, e Elet, Inform (DIEEI), Università degli Studi di Catania Dip di Ing, Elet, e Elet, Inform (DIEEI), Catania, Italy

    Salvatore Massimo Oliveri

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    Guillermo Peris-Fajarnes

  5. Dept of Mechanical Energy and Management, University of Calabria Dept of Mechanical Energy and Management, Rende (Cosenza), Italy

    Sergio Rizzuti

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MARCOLIN, F. et al. (2017). Three-dimensional face analysis via new geometrical descriptors. In: Eynard, B., Nigrelli, V., Oliveri, S., Peris-Fajarnes, G., Rizzuti, S. (eds) Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45781-9_75

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