Patent ID: 7065233

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 at least two images of the face; finding matched points in the two images based on locations identified by a human user on at least one of the images; estimating rotation and translation of the face based on the matched points in the images; determining 3D positions of the matched points based on the estimated rotation and translation to create a 3D representation of the face; capturing a succession of 2D images containing the face in a range of poses; determining poses of the face by performing the following actions for each 2D image in succession: matching points of the face 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 fitted neutral face model, the 3D positions being determined by the poses of the images; and 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.