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The Asymmetry of Image Registration and its Application to Face Tracking
G. Dedeoglu, T. Kanade, and S. Baker
tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2006.
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| Abstract |
Most image registration problems are formulated in an asymmetric fashion. Given a pair of images, one is implicitly or explicitly regarded as a template, and warped onto the other to match as well as possible. In this paper, we focus on this seemingly arbitrary choice of the roles, and reveal how it may lead to biased warp estimates in the presence of relative scaling. We present a principled way of selecting the template, and explain why only the correct asymmetric form, with the potential inclusion of a blurring step, can yield an unbiased estimator.
We validate our analysis in the domain of model-based face tracking. We show how the usual Active Appearance Model (AAM) formulation overlooks the asymmetry issue, causing the fitting accuracy to degrade quickly when the observed objects are smaller than their model. We formulate a novel, ``resolution-aware fitting'' (RAF) algorithm that respects the asymmetry, and incorporates an explicit model of the blur caused by the camera's sensing elements into the fitting formulation. We compare the RAF algorithm against a state-of-the-art tracker across a variety of resolutions and AAM complexity levels. Experimental results show that RAF significantly improves the estimation accuracy of both shape and appearance parameters when fitting to low resolution data.
Recognizing and accounting for the asymmetry of image registration leads to tangible accuracy improvements in analyzing low resolution imagery.
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Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Face Group
Number of pages: 37
| Text Reference |
G. Dedeoglu, T. Kanade, and S. Baker, The Asymmetry of Image Registration and its Application to Face Tracking, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2006.
| BibTeX Reference |
@techreport{Dedeoglu_2006_5340,
author = "Goksel Dedeoglu and Takeo Kanade and Simon Baker",
title = "The Asymmetry of Image Registration and its Application to Face Tracking",
institution = "Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University",
month = "February",
year = "2006",
number = "CMU-RI-TR-06-06",
address = "Pittsburgh, PA"
}