Development of an ultrasound based 3D facial scanning system

Author

Ali, Ridita ; Saatchi, Reza ; Rahman, Mohammed Rezwan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. & Math., Sheffield Hallam Univ., Sheffield, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A low-cost ultrasound transceiver was used to scan the faces of two manikins. Each manikin´s head was placed on a computer controlled turntable. The transceiver was mounted in front of the manikin´s head at a distance of 20 cm and the scanning was performed from forehead to the chin by turning the table. After a single horizontal scan, the sensor moved down by 1 mm. Three dimensional views of the two faces were produced from the data, although the quality of scans produced in this study was coarse.

Keywords

biomedical engineering; biomedical ultrasonics; transceivers; computer controlled turntable; distance 20 cm; face dimensional view; horizontal scan; sensor; ultrasound based 3D facial scanning system development; ultrasound transceiver; Acoustics; Adaptation models; Face recognition; Three-dimensional displays; Transceivers; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Ultrasound sensing; facial scanning; image processing; sensors; three-dimensional scanning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5445-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS-BIO.2014.7032432

Filename

7032432