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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 to automatically build, update, and fit 2D and 3D models of human faces and heads. Please see the sub-projects below for more details.

Past members

Name Title Email Address
Simon Baker Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)
Jordi Casoliva-Rodon Research Associate II
Fernando's personal homepage Fernando De la Torre Frade Research Scientist ftorre@cs.cmu.edu
Ralph's personal homepage Ralph Gross PhD Student, ISRI rgross@cs.cmu.edu
Takahiro Ishikawa Visiting Industrial Scholar
Takeo's personal homepage Takeo Kanade U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS tk@cs.cmu.edu
Simon's personal homepage Simon Lucey Systems Scientist slucey+@andrew.cmu.edu
Iain's personal homepage Iain Matthews Senior Systems Scientist iainm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)
Krishnan Ramnath Masters Student, RI
Jeff's personal homepage Jeff Schneider Assoc. Research Professor schneide@cs.cmu.edu
Jing's personal homepage Jing Xiao PhD Student, RI

Past Sub-projects

2D->3D Face Model Construction - We develop a linear algorithm that uniquely recovers the 3D non-rigid shapes and poses of a human face from a 2D monocular video.
AAM Fitting Algorithms - Many varieties of algorithms for fitting Cootes and Taylor's "Active Appearance Models" are developed.
Automatic Construction of Active Appearance Models - An algorithm for the automatic (unsupervised) construction of an Active Appearance Model.
Template Update - We are developing an algorithm to update template tracking that avoids the "drifting" problem of the naive update algorithm.

Recent publications [View all 18 publications]

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