Pose-robust albedo estimation from a single image

TitlePose-robust albedo estimation from a single image
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsBiswas S, Chellappa R
Conference NameComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010 IEEE Conference on
Date Published2010/06//
Keywords3D, albedo, estimation;, estimation;shape, Face, filtering;face, image;single, image;stochastic, information;pose-robust, matching;pose, nonfrontal, pose;class-specific, recognition;filtering, recovery;single, statistics;computer, theory;pose, vision;illumination-insensitive
Abstract

We present a stochastic filtering approach to perform albedo estimation from a single non-frontal face image. Albedo estimation has far reaching applications in various computer vision tasks like illumination-insensitive matching, shape recovery, etc. We extend the formulation proposed in that assumes face in known pose and present an algorithm that can perform albedo estimation from a single image even when pose information is inaccurate. 3D pose of the input face image is obtained as a byproduct of the algorithm. The proposed approach utilizes class-specific statistics of faces to iteratively improve albedo and pose estimates. Illustrations and experimental results are provided to show the effectiveness of the approach. We highlight the usefulness of the method for the task of matching faces across variations in pose and illumination. The facial pose estimates obtained are also compared against ground truth.

DOI10.1109/CVPR.2010.5539987