Face Analysis Under Uncontrolled Conditions: From Face Detection to Expression Recognition

Face analysis is essential for a large number of applications such as human-computer interaction or multimedia (e.g. content indexing and retrieval). Although many approaches are under investigation, performance under uncontrolled conditions is still not satisfactory. The variations that impact facial appearance (e.g. pose, expression, illumination, occlusion, motion blur) make it a difficult problem to solve.

This book describes the progress towards this goal, from a core building block – l...