3D face recognition based on evolution of iso-geodesic distance curves

This paper presents a novel 3D face recognition method by means of the evolution of iso-geodesic distance curves. Specifically, the proposed method compares two neighboring iso-geodesic distance curves, and formalizes the evolution between them as a one-dimensional function, named evolution angle function, which is Euclidean invariant. The novelty of this paper consists in formalizing 3D face by an evolution angle functions, and in computing the distance between two faces by that of two functions. Experiments on Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) ver2.0 shows that our approach works very well on both neutral faces and non-neutral faces. By introducing a weight function, we also show a very promising result on non-neutral face database.

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