Patent ID: 7133540

Claim:
One or more computer-readable media containing a program that is executable by a computer to create a 3D model of a face, the program comprising the following actions: capturing a succession of 2D images containing the face in a range of poses; finding matched points in the 2D images based on locations identified on at least one of the images; determining poses of the face by performing the following actions for each 2D image in succession: matching points of the object in the 2D image with corresponding points of a previous 2D image whose pose is already known, wherein the matched points of the images have corresponding 3D positions in a fitted neutral face model, the 3D positions being determined by the poses of the images; calculating a pose for the 2D image that minimizes differences between projections of 3D positions of matched points of the previous image onto the given image and the corresponding matched points of the given image.