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Image Enhancement for Faces
Head: Simon Baker
Contact: Simon Baker

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Face Group

We have been developing a variety of techniques to enhance images of faces. Please see the sub-projects below for more details.

Face Hallucination

Super-Resolution Optical Flow

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Jonas August - Project Scientist
• Simon Baker - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)
• [Home] Goksel Dedeoglu - PhD Student, RI
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof. <tk@cs.cmu.edu>

• Face Video Hallucination - A learning-based approach to super-resolve human face videos.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• The Asymmetry of Image Registration and its Application to Face Tracking
  G. Dedeoglu, T. Kanade, and S. Baker
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 29, No. 5, May, 2007, pp. 807-823. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [4117 KB] copyrighted

• Resolution-Aware Fitting of Active Appearance Models to Low-Resolution Images
  G. Dedeoglu, S. Baker, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2006, Springer-Verlag, Vol. II, No. 3952, May, 2006, pp. 83 - 97. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1908 KB] copyrighted

• High-Zoom Video Hallucination by Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Regularities
  G. Dedeoglu, T. Kanade, and J. August
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '04), Vol. 2, June, 2004, pp. 151 - 158. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [503 KB] copyrighted

• Limits on Super-Resolution and How to Break Them
  S. Baker and T. Kanade
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 24, No. 9, September, 2002, pp. 1167 - 1183. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [998 KB], ps.gz [1892 KB] copyrighted

• Super-Resolution: Reconstruction or Recognition?
  S. Baker and T. Kanade
  IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, IEEE, Baltimore, Maryland, June, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [228 KB], ps.gz [317 KB] copyrighted

• Super-Resolution: Limits and Beyond
  S. Baker and T. Kanade
  Super-Resolution Imaging, S. Chaudhuri, ed., Kluwer Academic Press, 2001.
  Download: pdf [783 KB], ps.gz [1267 KB] copyrighted

• Limits on Super-Resolution and How to Break Them
  S. Baker and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [328 KB], ps.gz [423 KB] copyrighted

• Hallucinating Faces
  S. Baker and T. Kanade
  Fourth International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, March, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [270 KB], ps.gz [322 KB] copyrighted

• Super Resolution Optical Flow
  S. Baker and T. Kanade
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-99-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [281 KB], ps.gz [758 KB] copyrighted

• Hallucinating Faces
  S. Baker and T. Kanade
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-99-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1884 KB], ps.gz [2954 KB] copyrighted