Patent ID: 8803950
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus capturing a three-dimensional (3D) face, the apparatus comprising: a color image obtaining unit to obtain a face color image; a depth image obtaining unit to obtain a face depth image; an image alignment module to align the obtained face color image and the obtained face depth image; a 3D face model generating module to perform two-dimensional (2D) modeling of the obtained face color image, and to perform covering of a modeled 2D face area on an image output by the image alignment module to obtain a 3D face model; a first denoising module to remove depth noise of the 3D face model; and a second denoising module to align the 3D face model and a 3D face template, and to remove residual noise based on a registration between the 3D face model and the 3D face template to obtain an accurate 3D face model, wherein the 3D face model generating module performs the 2D modeling using an ellipse face color image, and wherein the first denoising module calculates a scale-independent variance (V) in a depth direction, and compares V with a first threshold to determine whether noise exists in the 3D face model.