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A Robust Active Appearance Models Search Algorithm

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Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2008 (PCM 2008)

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With the aid of AAMs search algorithm, Active Appearance Models (AAMs) can represent non-rigid image objects with shape and texture variations well. However, the performance of the traditional AAMs search algorithm(TAAMS) is limited by its assumption that the error function is convex. Therefore, this paper proposes a robust AAMs search algorithm (RAAMS) which combines the multi-pose search (MS) for better pose matching and an estimation mechanism of parameter search direction (EPSD) for more accurate search direction. Moreover, a precaution mechanism of local minimum (PLM) is proposed to avoid the search trapped into the local minimum of the error function. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce 36.41% of shape error and 30.81% of texture error between the synthesized instance and target image.

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  1. Visual Communications Lab, Department of Communication Engineering, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

    Yong-Fong Lin & Chih-Wei Tang

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  1. Yong-Fong Lin
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  1. Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, No.1, University Road, 701, Tainan City, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Ray Huang

  2. National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 95, Zhongguancun East Road, 100190, Beijing, China

    Changsheng Xu

  3. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, 701, Tainan City, Taiwan

    Kuo-Sheng Cheng

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, 701, Tainan City, Taiwan

    Jar-Ferr Kevin Yang

  5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, S-EV005.139, 1515 St. Catherine West, Montreal, H4G 2W1, Quebec, Canada

    M. N. S. Swamy

  6. Microsoft Research Asia, 5/F, Beijing Sigma Center, No. 49, Zhichun Road, Hai Dian District, 100080, Beijing, China

    Shipeng Li

  7. Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, No. 415, Jiangong Road, Sanmin District, 80778, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Jen-Wen Ding

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Lin, YF., Tang, CW. (2008). A Robust Active Appearance Models Search Algorithm. In: Huang, YM.R., et al. Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2008. PCM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5353. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89796-5_104

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