Symmetry for face analysis.

Yuan Tianqiang.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-55).Abstracts in English and Chinese.abstract --- p.iacknowledgments --- p.ivtable of contents --- p.vlist of figures --- p.viilist of tables --- p.ixChapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Reflectional Symmetry Detection --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Research Progress on Face Analysis --- p.2Chapter 1.2.1 --- Face Detection --- p.3Chapter 1.2.2 --- Face Alignment --- p.4Chapter 1.2.3 --- Face Recognition --- p.6Chapter 1.3 --- Organization of this thesis --- p.8Chapter Chapter 2 --- Local reflectional symmetry detection --- p.9Chapter 2.1 --- Proposed Method --- p.9Chapter 2.1.1 --- Symmetry measurement operator --- p.9Chapter 2.1.2 --- Potential regions selection --- p.10Chapter 2.1.3 --- Detection of symmetry axes --- p.11Chapter 2.2 --- Experiments --- p.13Chapter 2.2.1 --- Parameter setting and analysis --- p.13Chapter 2.2.2 --- Experimental Results --- p.14Chapter Chapter 3 --- Global perspective reflectional symmetry detection --- p.16Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction of camera models --- p.16Chapter 3.2 --- Property of Symmetric Point-Pair --- p.18Chapter 3.3 --- analysis and Experiment --- p.20Chapter 3.3.1 --- Confirmative Experiments --- p.20Chapter 3.3.2 --- Face shape generation with PSI --- p.22Chapter 3.3.3 --- Error Analysis --- p.24Chapter 3.3.4 --- Experiments of Pose Estimation --- p.25Chapter 3.4 --- Summary --- p.28Chapter Chapter 4 --- Pre-processing of face analysis --- p.30Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction of Hough Transform --- p.30Chapter 4.2 --- Eye Detection --- p.31Chapter 4.2.1 --- Coarse Detection --- p.32Chapter 4.2.2 --- Refine the eyes positions --- p.34Chapter 4.2.3 --- Experiments and Analysis --- p.35Chapter 4.3 --- Face Components Detection with GHT --- p.37Chapter 4.3.1 --- Parameter Analyses --- p.38Chapter 4 3.2 --- R-table Construction --- p.38Chapter 4.3.3 --- Detection Procedure and Voting Strategy --- p.39Chapter 4.3.4 --- Experiments and Analysis --- p.41Chapter Chapter 5 --- Pose estimation with face symmetry --- p.45Chapter 5.1 --- Key points selection --- p.45Chapter 5.2 --- Face Pose Estimation --- p.46Chapter 5.2.1 --- Locating eye corners --- p.46Chapter 5.2.2 --- Analysis and Summary --- p.47Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusions and future work --- p.49bibliography --- p.5

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