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Modeling of Facial Wrinkles for Applications in Computer Vision

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Analysis and modeling of aging human faces have been extensively studied in the past decade for applications in computer vision such as age estimation, age progression and face recognition across aging. Most of this research work is based on facial appearance and facial features such as face shape, geometry, location of landmarks and patch-based texture features. Despite the recent availability of higher resolution, high quality facial images, we do not find much work on the image analysis of local facial features such as wrinkles specifically. For the most part, modeling of facial skin texture, fine lines and wrinkles has been a focus in computer graphics research for photo-realistic rendering applications. In computer vision, very few aging related applications focus on such facial features. Where several survey papers can be found on facial aging analysis in computer vision, this chapter focuses specifically on the analysis of facial wrinkles in the context of several applications. Facial wrinkles can be categorized as subtle discontinuities or cracks in surrounding inhomogeneous skin texture and pose challenges to being detected/localized in images. First, we review commonly used image features to capture the intensity gradients caused by facial wrinkles and then present research in modeling and analysis of facial wrinkles as aging texture or curvilinear objects for different applications. The reviewed applications include localization or detection of wrinkles in facial images, incorporation of wrinkles for more realistic age progression, analysis for age estimation and inpainting/removal of wrinkles for facial retouching.

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  1. Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköpings Universitet/US, 58185, Linköping, Sweden

    Nazre Batool

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Automation Research, UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Rama Chellappa

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Batool, N., Chellappa, R. (2016). Modeling of Facial Wrinkles for Applications in Computer Vision. In: Kawulok, M., Celebi, M., Smolka, B. (eds) Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25958-1_11

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