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Psychologically inspired dimensionality reduction for 2D and 3D Face Recognition (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2011, September). Psychologically inspired dimensionality reduction for 2D and 3D Face Recognition. Paper presented at British Machine Vision Conference 2011, Dundee, UK

We present a number of related novel methods for reducing the dimensionality of data for the purposes of 2D and 3D face recognition. Results from psychology show that humans are capable of very good recognition of low resolution images and caricature... Read More about Psychologically inspired dimensionality reduction for 2D and 3D Face Recognition.

The photoface database (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Zafeirou, S., Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., Argyriou, V., Petrou, M., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2011, June). The photoface database. Paper presented at Biometrics Workshop of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Biologically inspired 3D face recognition from surface normals (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hansen, M. F., & Atkinson, G. (2010, September). Biologically inspired 3D face recognition from surface normals. Paper presented at Procedia Computer Science, Coimbatore, India

A major consideration in state-of-the-art face recognition systems is the amount of data that is required to represent a face. Even a small (64 × 64) photograph of a face has 2 12 dimensions in which a face may sit. When large (> 1MB) photographs of... Read More about Biologically inspired 3D face recognition from surface normals.

An efficient and practical 3D face scanner using near infrared and visible photometric stereo (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Atkinson, G., Hansen, M. F., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2010, September). An efficient and practical 3D face scanner using near infrared and visible photometric stereo. Paper presented at International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics Technology, Coimbatore, India

This paper is concerned with the acquisition of model data for automatic 3D face recognition applications. As 3D methods become progressively more popular in face recognition research, the need for fast and accurate data capture has become crucial. T... Read More about An efficient and practical 3D face scanner using near infrared and visible photometric stereo.

Baseline face recognition using photometric stereo data (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Zafeiriou, S., Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., Petrou, M., & Smith, M. (2010, September). Baseline face recognition using photometric stereo data. Paper presented at International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, 2010, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Face recognition based on ridgelet transforms (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Kautkar, S., Koche, R., Keskar, T., Pande, A., Rane, M., & Atkinson, G. (2010, September). Face recognition based on ridgelet transforms. Paper presented at International Conference and Exhibition on Biometrics Technology, Coimbatore, India

Multi-scale depth from slope with weights (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Saracchini, R., Stolfi, J., Leitão, H., Atkinson, G., & Smith, M. (2010, September). Multi-scale depth from slope with weights. Poster presented at British Machine Vision Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales

We describe a robust method to recover the depth coordinate from a normal or slope map of a scene, obtained e.g. through photometric stereo or interferometry. The key feature of our method is the fast solution of the Poisson-like integration equation... Read More about Multi-scale depth from slope with weights.

3D face reconstructions from photometric stereo using near infrared and visible light (2010)
Journal Article
Hansen, M. F., Atkinson, G., Smith, L., & Smith, M. (2010). 3D face reconstructions from photometric stereo using near infrared and visible light. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 114(8), 942-951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2010.03.001

This paper seeks to advance the state-of-the-art in 3D face capture and processing via novel Photometric Stereo (PS) hardware and algorithms. The first contribution is a new high-speed 3D data capture system, which is capable of acquiring four raw im... Read More about 3D face reconstructions from photometric stereo using near infrared and visible light.

Correlating plagiocephaly skull deformations with facial asymmetry using projected pattern 3D imaging (2010)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, G., Smith, M., Smith, L., & Warr, R. (2010). Correlating plagiocephaly skull deformations with facial asymmetry using projected pattern 3D imaging. In A. Hierlemann (Ed.), Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference: Biomedical Engineering (BioMED 2010) February 17-19, 2010 Innsbruck, Austria (249-256). Acta Press

In this paper, we present a statistical study into skull deformations caused by positional plagiocephaly. We also consider the hardware used for the assessment of both severity and treatment. State-of-the-art external imaging hardware is employed to... Read More about Correlating plagiocephaly skull deformations with facial asymmetry using projected pattern 3D imaging.

Facial geometry estimation using photometric stereo and profile views (2009)
Journal Article
Atkinson, G., Smith, M., Smith, L., & Farooq, A. (2009). Facial geometry estimation using photometric stereo and profile views. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5558 LNCS, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01793-3_1

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the three-dimensional shape of faces, facilitating the possibility of enhanced face recognition. The method involves a combined use of photometric stereo and profile view information. It can be divide... Read More about Facial geometry estimation using photometric stereo and profile views.

Facial reconstruction and alignment using photometric stereo and surface fitting (2009)
Journal Article
Farooq, A. R., Atkinson, G., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2009). Facial reconstruction and alignment using photometric stereo and surface fitting. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5524 LNCS, 88-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02172-5_13

This paper presents a novel 3D face shape capture device suitable for practical face recognition applications. A new surface fitting based face alignment algorithm is then presented to normalise the pose in preparation for recognition. The 3D data ca... Read More about Facial reconstruction and alignment using photometric stereo and surface fitting.

Facial reconstruction and alignment using photometric stereo and surface fitting (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Atkinson, G., Farooq, A., Smith, M., & Smith, L. (2009, June). Facial reconstruction and alignment using photometric stereo and surface fitting. Paper presented at Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, 2009, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal

The nose on your face may not be so plain: Using the nose as a biometric (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Moorhouse, A., Evans, N., Atkinson, G., Sun, J., & Smith, M. (2009, June). The nose on your face may not be so plain: Using the nose as a biometric. Paper presented at International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention, Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, UK 2009, Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, UK

Facial geometry estimation using photometric stereo and profile views (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Atkinson, G., Smith, M., Smith, L., & Farooq, A. (2009, June). Facial geometry estimation using photometric stereo and profile views. Paper presented at International Conference on Biometrics, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, 2009, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy

Two-dimensional BRDF estimation from polarisation (2008)
Journal Article
Atkinson, G., & Hancock, E. R. (2008). Two-dimensional BRDF estimation from polarisation. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 111(2), 126-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2007.09.005

This paper presents a novel technique for reflectance function (BRDF) estimation, which uses polarisation information and photometric stereo. The first stage of the technique is standard and involves the acquisition of polarisation information (angle... Read More about Two-dimensional BRDF estimation from polarisation.

Shape estimation using polarization and shading from two views (2007)
Journal Article
Hancock, E. R., & Atkinson, G. (2007). Shape estimation using polarization and shading from two views. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29(11), 2001-2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1099

This paper presents a novel method for 3D surface reconstruction that uses polarization and shading information from two views. The method relies on polarization data acquired using a standard digital camera and a linear polarizer. Fresnel theory is... Read More about Shape estimation using polarization and shading from two views.