Multiview Active Shape Models with SIFT Descriptors for the 300-W Face Landmark Challenge

Stephen Milborrow, Tom E. Bishop, Fred Nicolls; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, 2013, pp. 378-385

Abstract

The 2013 iBUG 300-W Challenge [25] tests the ability of participants' software to locate landmarks in unseen images of faces. We approach the challenge with Active Shape Models (ASMs [6]) that incorporate a modified version of SIFT descriptors [18]. We make use of multiple ASMs, searching for landmarks with the ASM that best matches the face's estimated yaw. This simple approach is shown to be effective on a variety of datasets.

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@InProceedings{Milborrow_2013_ICCV_Workshops,
author = {Stephen Milborrow and Tom E. Bishop and Fred Nicolls},
title = {Multiview Active Shape Models with SIFT Descriptors for the 300-W Face Landmark Challenge},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops},
month = {June},
year = {2013}
}