As virtual anthropology is becoming more and more ubiquitous, so are the means to acquire,
process and analyze 3D data. Among these means, surface scanners have gained a …

We address the problem of automatically detecting a sparse set of 3D mesh vertices, likely to
be good candidates for determining correspondences, even on soft organic objects. We …

We present a method for the automatic localization of facial landmarks that integrates
nonrigid deformation with the ability to handle missing points. The algorithm generates sets …

Biometric identification from three-dimensional (3-D) facial surface characteristics has
become popular, especially in high security applications. In this paper, we propose a fully …

Distance measures and geometrical features are widely used to describe faces. Generally,
they are extracted punctually from landmarks, namely anthropometric reference points. The …

Lip-reading (LR) systems play an important role for automatic speech recognition when
acoustic information is corrupted or unavailable. This article proposes an adaptive LR …

The application of three-dimensional (3D) facial analysis and landmarking algorithms in the
field of maxillofacial surgery and other medical applications, such as diagnosis of diseases …

The face is perhaps the most important human anatomical part, and its study is very
important in many fields, such as the medical one and the identification one. Technical …

Most 3D face processing systems require feature detection and localisation, for example to
crop, register, analyse or recognise faces. The three features often used in the literature are …

Face study and description through landmarks is a key activity in many fields, in particular
the medical one for both corrective and esthetic surgery purposes. In a previous work, we …