Development of a fast panoramic face mosaicking and recognition system
Category
Journal Article
Authors
Yang, F., Paindavoine, M., Abdi, H., Monopoli, A.
Year
2005
Title
Development of a fast panoramic face mosaicking and recognition system
Journal / book / conference
Optical Engineering
Abstract
We present some development results on a system that performs mosaicking of panoramic faces. Our objective is to study the feasibility of panoramic face construction in real time. To do so, we built a simple acquisition system composed of five standard cameras, which together can take simultaneously five views of a face at different angles. Then, we chose an easily hardware-achievable algorithm, consisting of successive linear transformations, in order to compose a panoramic face from these five views. The method has been tested on a large number of faces. In order to validate our system, we also conducted a preliminary study on panoramic face recognition, based on the principal-component method. Experimental results show the feasibility and viability of our system. This allows us to envisage later a hardware implementation. We also are considering using our system for other applications, such as human expression categorization and fast 3-D face reconstruction. (c) 2005 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
Issue
8
Volume
44