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The appearance model is similar to that used in the AAM [1]. However in our approach the appearance model is used to generate likely feature templates, instead of trying to approximate the image pixels directly.
[1] Cootes T F, Edwards G J, Taylor C J. Active appearance models[C]// European Conference on Computer Vision. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998:484-498.( pdf, ppt )
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