This page has some extra reading for interested students. PCA has been used in all sorts of ways. The papers here may give you some ideas for a final project.
Introduction to PCA
Slides
Eigenfaces for recognition.
M. Turk and A. Pentland
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(1), 1991. (class handout)Appearance Manifolds and Object Recognition
Parametric Appearance Representation.
S. Nayar, H. Murase, and S. Nene.
in: Early Visual Learning, edited by S. K. Nayar and T. Poggio,Oxford University Press, February 1996.Shape and motion
Learning Flexible Models from Image Sequences.
A. Baumberg and D. Hogg.
Univ. Leeds, TR93.36, 1993.Links:
Analyzing sporting events.
Pedestrian modeling.
Baumberg's page with mpegs of results.Shape and Appearance
Active Appearance Models.
T. Cootes, G.Edwards, and C. Taylor.
European Conf on Comp. Vision, Vol. 2 pp. 484-498 1998.Links:
EigenTracking
Eigenracking: Robust matching and tracking of articulated objects using a view-based representation,
Black, M. J. and Jepson, A.,
International Journal of Computer Vision, 26(1), pp. 63-84, 1998. (abstract)Linear Models of Motion
Learning parameterized models of image motion.
Black, M. J., Yacoob, Y., Jepson, A. D., Fleet, D. J.
IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR-97, Puerto Rico, June 1997, pp. 561-567.Synthesis, Appearance, and Linear models of gender age and attractiveness.
A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces.
V. Blanz and T. Vetter
SIGGRAPH'99 Conference Proceedings, pp. 187-194.Manipulating Facial Appearance through Shape and Color.
D. Rowland and D. Perrett
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol 15 No. 5, Sept 1995, pp. 70-76.Links:
Blanz homepage: description, movie, etc.
Additional information:
Three-dimensional shape and two-dimensional surface textures of human faces: The role of "averages" in attractiveness and age.
A. J. O'Toole, T. Price, T. Vetter, J. C. Bartlett & V. Blanz,
Image and Vision Computing Journal, 18 (1999) 9-19.