Morphable Face Models - An Open Framework

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In this paper, we present a novel open-source pipeline for face registration based on Gaussian processes as well as an application to face image analysis.

• Non-rigid registration of faces is significant for many applications in computer vision, such as the construction of 3D Morphable face models (3DMMs).
• Gaussian Process Morphable Models (GPMMs) unify a variety of non-rigid deformation models with B-splines and PCA models as examples.
• GPMM separate problem specific requirements from the registration algorithm by incorporating domain-specific adaptions as a prior model.