Euclidean structure from uncalibrated images using fuzzy domain knowledge: application to facial images synthesis

Abstract

Use of uncalibrated images has found many applications such as image synthesis. However, it is not easy to specify the desired position of the new image in projective or affine space. This paper proposes to recover Euclidean structure from uncalibrated images using domain knowledge such as distances and angles. The knowledge we have is usually about an object category, but not very precise for the particular object being considered. The variation (fuzziness) is modeled as a Gaussian variable. Six types of common knowledge are formulated. Once we have an Euclidean description, the task to specify the desired position in Euclidean space becomes trivial. The proposed technique is then applied to synthesis of new facial images. A number of difficulties existing in image synthesis are identified and solved. For example, we propose to use edge points to deal with occlusion.