A morphing technique for facial image representation

Presents a method for the representation of facial images. The proposed method consists of two modules: face-image matching and face-image morphing. In the first module, the correspondence between two images are calculated for all pixel locations. A novel area-based matching method is proposed that makes use of the concept of the fractal dimension, and develops a non-parametric local transform as a basis for establishing the correspondence between two face images. In the second module, a mapping is performed for deformation of the source face image on to the target face image. This is done to map the pixels in the source face image to the location of their corresponding pixels in the target image.