Deformable models in the \physically-based" paradigm are almost always formulated in an ad-hoc fashion, not related to physical reality { they apply the equations on physics i...
Terrance E. Boult, Samuel D. Fenster, Thomas O'Don...
Abstract— Perceiving human faces is one of the most important functions for human robot interaction. The active appearance model (AAM) is a statistical approach that models the s...
We present a geometric approach to statistical shape analysis of closed curves in images. The basic idea is to specify a space of closed curves satisfying given constraints, and e...
Anuj Srivastava, Xiuwen Liu, Washington Mio, Eric ...
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is widely used in the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) as the state-of-art statistical modeling technique. Like the classical EM method, th...
Sheeraz Memon, Margaret Lech, Namunu Chinthaka Mad...
We present an approach for robust shape retrieval from databases containing articulated 3D models. Each shape is represented by the eigenvectors of an appropriately defined affin...