Locating Facial Landmarks towards Plastic Surgery

The improvement of digital cameras and computers´ processing capabilities have made applicable the solutions of a wide range of problems regarding image processing and computer vision. Among the most interesting tasks in this field of expertise, there are several face related problems. Many works have been proposed to solve problems such as face recognition, expression and age estimation, facial reconstruction, etc. Those works have a large potential to be explored in applications ranging from computer graphics to security and, even, medical software. This work proposes a method to automatic locate and identify a set of facial landmarks. The goal is to quickly provide precise and helpful information for plastic surgery procedures. The proposal, after implemented and tested on over 400 images, presented encouraging results for aesthetic analysis. Besides, it brings a novel methodology to locating specific landmarks needed for planning surgeries.