A method for automatic forensic facial reconstruction based on dense statistics of soft tissue thickness.

In this paper, we present a method for automated estimation of a human face given a skull remain. Our proposed method is based on three statistical models. A volumetric (tetrahedral) skull model encoding the variations of different skulls, a surface head model encoding the head variations, and a den...

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Main Authors: Thomas Gietzen, Robert Brylka, Jascha Achenbach, Katja Zum Hebel, Elmar Schömer, Mario Botsch, Ulrich Schwanecke, Ralf Schulze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210257