A comprehensive survey on 3D face recognition methods

M Li, B Huang, G Tian - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D face recognition (3DFR) has emerged as an effective means of characterizing
facial identity over the past several decades. Depending on the types of techniques used in …

3D face recognition: a survey

S Zhou, S **ao - Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Abstract 3D face recognition has become a trending research direction in both industry and
academia. It inherits advantages from traditional 2D face recognition, such as the natural …

3D face recognition under expressions, occlusions, and pose variations

H Drira, BB Amor, A Srivastava… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel geometric framework for analyzing 3D faces, with the specific goals of
comparing, matching, and averaging their shapes. Here we represent facial surfaces by …

Towards 3D face recognition in the real: a registration-free approach using fine-grained matching of 3D keypoint descriptors

H Li, D Huang, JM Morvan, Y Wang, L Chen - International Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Registration algorithms performed on point clouds or range images of face scans have been
successfully used for automatic 3D face recognition under expression variations, but have …

3d face recognition: Two decades of progress and prospects

Y Guo, H Wang, L Wang, Y Lei, L Liu… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

meshSIFT: Local surface features for 3D face recognition under expression variations and partial data

D Smeets, J Keustermans, D Vandermeulen… - Computer Vision and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Matching 3D faces for recognition is a challenging task caused by the presence of
expression variations, missing data, and outliers. In this paper the meshSIFT algorithm and …

A two-phase weighted collaborative representation for 3D partial face recognition with single sample

Y Lei, Y Guo, M Hayat, M Bennamoun, X Zhou - Pattern Recognition, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D face recognition with the availability of only partial data (missing parts,
occlusions and data corruptions) and single training sample is a highly challenging task …

UMB-DB: A database of partially occluded 3D faces

A Colombo, C Cusano… - 2011 IEEE international …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present the UMB-DB 3D face database. The database has been built to test
algorithms and systems for 3D face analysis in uncontrolled and challenging scenarios, in …

Nasal patches and curves for expression-robust 3D face recognition

M Emambakhsh, A Evans - IEEE transactions on pattern …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The potential of the nasal region for expression robust 3D face recognition is thoroughly
investigated by a novel five-step algorithm. First, the nose tip location is coarsely detected …

Dense 3D face correspondence

SZ Gilani, A Mian, F Shafait… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an algorithm that automatically establishes dense correspondences between a
large number of 3D faces. Starting from automatically detected sparse correspondences on …