Authors: Damian J. J. Farnell, Jennifer Galloway, Alexei I. Zhurov, Stephen Richmond, Pertti Perttiniemi, Višnja Katić

Venue: N/A

Type: Publication

Abstract: Traditionally, active shape models (ASMs) do not make a distinction between groups in the subject population and they rely on methods such as (single-level) principal components analysis (PCA). Multilevel principal components analysis (mPCA) allows one to model between-group effects and within-group effects explicitly. Three dimensional (3D) laser scans were taken from 250 subjects (38 Croatian female, 35 Croatian male, 40 English female, 40 English male, 23 Welsh female, 27 Welsh male, 23 Finnish female, and 24 Finnish male) and 21 landmark po... (read more)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60964-5_59