Facial Surface Analysis using Iso-Geodesic Curves in Three Dimensional Face Recognition System

In this paper, we present an automatic 3D face recognition system. This system is based on the representation of human faces surfaces as collections of Iso-Geodesic Curves (IGC) using 3D Fast Marching algorithm. To compare two facial surfaces, we compute a geodesic distance between a pair of facial curves using a Riemannian geometry. In the classifying step, we use: Neural Networks (NN), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Support Vector Machines (SVM). To test this method and evaluate its performance, a simulation series of experiments were performed on 3D Shape REtrieval Contest 2008 database (SHREC2008).