3D statistical facial reconstruction

Maxime Berar (1) , Michel Desvignes (1) , Gérard Bailly (2) , Yohan Payan (3)

1 LIS - Laboratoire des images et des signaux
2 ICP - Institut de la communication parlée
3 TIMC-IMAG-GMCAO - Gestes Medico-chirurgicaux Assistés par Ordinateur

The aim of craniofacial reconstruction is to produce a likeness of a face from the skull. Few works in computerized assisted facial reconstruction have been done in the past, due to poor machine performances and data availability, and major works are manually reconstructions. In this paper, we present an approach to build 3D statistical models of the skull and the face with soft tissues from the skull of one individual. Results on real data are presented and seem promising.

Mots clés: statistical shape model; facial reconstruction; 3D registration

Domaines: Biomécanique [physics.med-ph]; Biomécanique [physics.med-ph]; Statistiques [math.ST]; Imagerie médicale

Maxime Berar, Michel Desvignes, Gérard Bailly, Yohan Payan. 3D statistical facial reconstruction. 2005, pp.365-370. ⟨hal-00108498⟩