Active Appearance Models

Building on Active Shape Models, we’ll look into Active Appearance Models which incorporate a “shape-free” texture. Listed below in chronological order are the papers that introduced this idea.

Week 5

• Interpreting Face Images Using Active Appearance Models in Face and Gesture 1998 by Edwards, Taylor, and Cootes.
• Active Appearance Models in the European Conference on Computer Vision by Cootes, Edwards, and Taylor.
• Active Appearance Models in the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence by Cootes, Edwards, and Taylor.