A novel scheme of face verification using active appearance models

Face verification and face identification are two main applications for face recognition. Based on the face representation which they use, the current image-based face recognition techniques can be roughly classified into two groups: appearance-based methods and model-based methods. The method presented in this paper focuses on applying model-based methods to face verification. Unfortunately, the existing current model-based schemes are used for the applications of face identification and are not suitable for face verification. A novel scheme, which is custom-built for face verification applications, is therefore proposed in this paper. Active appearance model, a 2D morphable face model, is chosen and applied to realize the proposed scheme.