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3D facial data fitting using the biharmonic equation.

This paper discusses how a boundary-based surface fitting approach can be utilised to smoothly reconstruct a given human face where the scan data corresponding to the face is provided. In particular, the paper discusses how a solution to the Biharmonic equation can be used to set up the corresponding boundary value problem. We show how a compact explicit solution method can be utilised for efficiently solving the chosen Biharmonic equation.
Thus, given the raw scan data of a 3D face, we extract a series of profile curves from the data which can then be utilised as boundary conditions to solve the Biharmonic equation. The resulting solution provides us a continuous single surface patch describing the original face.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/2684
Date January 2006
CreatorsUgail, Hassan
PublisherACTA Press
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeBook chapter, final draft paper
Relationhttp://www.actapress.com/Abstract.aspx?paperId=28026

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