3D Face Indexing: An Efficient Framework for 3D Face Recognition

Ye Pan and Luciano Silva

Keywords

3D and Range Data Analysis, 3D Face Indexing, Iterative Closest Point, Simulated Annealing

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel 3D face indexing and recognition framework. First, 3D facial scans are aligned with a 3D facial template by applying a modified Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm and the distance vector of 3D facial regions are computed to generate the indexes of gallery. For recognition we select k-nearest candidates according to the indexes and use a Simulated Annealing based registration approach to match a probe with candidate faces. Our experimental results on the Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) v2 database show that our indexing approach is effective and could eliminate approximately 80% matches with 1% recognition rate loss, which could yield 98% rank one recognition performance at 0.001 False Acceptance Rate(FAR). Our results were compare very favorably to the ones from published state-of-the-art methods.

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