superviseddescent is a C++11 implementation of the supervised descent method, which is a generic algorithm to perform optimisation of arbitrary functions.
This library provides a generic implementation and example code how to use it for facial landmark detection and 3D pose estimation.
The theory is based on the idea of Supervised Descent Method and Its Applications to Face Alignment, from X. Xiong & F. De la Torre, CVPR 2013 (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6618919)
License & contributions:
This code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
Contributions are very welcome! (best in the form of pull requests.) Please use Github issues for any bug reports, ideas, and discussions.
If you use this code in your own work, please cite the following paper: Fitting 3D Morphable Models using Local Features, P. Huber, Z. Feng, W. Christmas, J. Kittler, M. Rätsch, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2015, Québec City, Canada (arXiv pre-print PDF).