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Maya de Buhan1, Chiara Nardoni2
1Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Unité mixte de recherche 8145, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées de Paris Descartes, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
Abstract:
This article presents a new numerical method for facial reconstruction. The problem is the following: given a dry skull, reconstruct a virtual face that would help in the identification of the subject. The approach combines classical features as the use of a skulls/faces database and more original aspects: (1) an original shape matching method is used to link the unknown skull to the database templates; (2) the final face is seen as an elastic 3D mask that is deformed and adapted onto the unknown skull. In this method, the skull is considered as a whole surface and not restricted to some anatomical landmarks, allowing a dense description of the skull/face relationship. Also, the approach is fully automated. Various results are presented to show its efficiency.
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