3D Face Generation from Sketch Using ASM and 3DMM

The major challenge that has not received much attention in automatic sketch to image face recognition is to achieve age invariance. 3D face modeling using image has been used to overcome many challenges of face recognition, as it is invariant to changes of viewpoint, illumination, background clutter and occlusions. Keeping all the challenges associated with sketches, 3D modeling and automatic sketch to image face recognition, we propose a method for reconstructing a 3D face model using only one frontal face sketch. The methodologies used for doing so are Active Shape Modeling (ASM) and three Dimensional Morphable Model (3DMM). ASM is used for getting the landmark points on the face based on the shape while 3DMM is used for reconstructing the 3D face model by using those points.