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Face and Facial Feature Tracking This project is no longer active. 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

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Project Description

We have been developing a variety of techniques for the rigid tracking of peoples heads and faces, and the non-rigid tracking of their facial features such as eyes, eyebrows, lips, and cheeks. Please see the projects below for more details.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Simon Baker	Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)
	Jeffrey Cohn	Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)	jeffcohn@cs.cmu.edu
	Takeo Kanade	U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS	tk@cs.cmu.edu
	Iain Matthews	Senior Systems Scientist	iainm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)
	Jing Xiao	PhD Student, RI

Past Sub-projects

3D Head Motion Recovery in Real Time - A cylindrical model-based algorithm recovers the full motion (3D rotations and 3D translations) of the head in real time.

AAM Fitting Algorithms - Many varieties of algorithms for fitting Cootes and Taylor's "Active Appearance Models" are developed.

Publications

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

• Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework
  S. Baker and I. Matthews
  International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 56, No. 3, March, 2004, pp. 221 - 255. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [462 KB] copyrighted

• Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework: Part 3
  S. Baker, R. Gross, and I. Matthews
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-35, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [580 KB] copyrighted

• Active Appearance Models Revisited
  I. Matthews and S. Baker
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [444 KB] copyrighted

• Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework: Part 2
  S. Baker, R. Gross, I. Matthews, and T. Ishikawa
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [467 KB] copyrighted

• Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework: Part 1
  S. Baker and I. Matthews
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [521 KB], ps.gz [436 KB] copyrighted

• Equivalence and Efficiency of Image Alignment Algorithms
  S. Baker and I. Matthews
  Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 1, December, 2001, pp. 1090 - 1097. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [165 KB], ps.gz [619 KB] copyrighted

• A Comparative Study of Alternative FACS Coding Algorithms
  J. Cohn, T. Kanade, T. Moriyama, Z. Ambadar, J. Xiao, J. Gao, and H. Imamura
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2001.
  Download: pdf [308 KB] copyrighted

• Aligning Images Incrementally Backwards
  S. Baker, F. Dellaert, and I. Matthews
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2001.
  Download: pdf [244 KB] copyrighted