This survey focuses on recognition performed by matching models of the three-dimensional
shape of the face, either alone or in combination with matching corresponding two …

Three-dimensional (3D) face recognition has been extensively investigated in the last two
decades due to its wide range of applications in many areas, such as security and forensics …

Government agencies are investing a considerable amount of resources into improving
security systems as result of recent terrorist events that dangerously exposed flaws and …

This paper introduces a method to extract 'Shape-DNA', a numerical fingerprint or signature,
of any 2d or 3d manifold (surface or solid) by taking the eigenvalues (ie the spectrum) of its …

Three-dimensional morphable models (3DMMs) are powerful statistical tools for
representing the 3D shapes and textures of an object class. Here we present the most …

Isometric surfaces share the same geometric structure, also known as the" first fundamental
form." For example, all possible bendings of a given surface that includes all length …

An expression-invariant 3D face recognition approach is presented. Our basic assumption is
that facial expressions can be modelled as isometries of the facial surface. This allows to …

Human ear is a new class of relatively stable biometrics that has drawn researchers'
attention recently. In this paper, we propose a complete human recognition system using 3D …

The performance of face recognition systems that use two-dimensional images depends on
factors such as lighting and subject's pose. We are develo** a face recognition system …

Results are presented for the largest experimental study to date that investigates the
comparison and combination of 2D and 3D face recognition. To our knowledge, this is also …