Hi,

If you have a series of human face images and want to reconstruct them in 3D then you can use free softwares like imageJ, etc.

Thanks a lot Mr. Ullah.

Try vtk, itk

I don't think there's an open source code for 3d face reconstruction from 2D image in C++ or matlab till now .. you may use www.facegen.com as an available software.

I would not agree to that Amal Aziz, OpenSource Toolkits VTK (www.vtk.org) and ITK (www.itk.org) are all for manipulating images and visualizing them in various forms. For e.g., 2D renders itself, 3D surface reconstruction and 3D volume rendering

Check these links

http://noodle.med.yale.edu/~papad/seminar/

http://www.cs.uic.edu/~jbell/CS526/Tutorial/Tutorial.html

Also, I have worked on the similar lines,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzTXQTynJM

Good Links Brian.. this is my first time in vtk area ..

I'm working on 3D face reconstruction statistical and geometrical algorithms and I couldn't find an open source code that goes with the current trends of face reconstruction.

Mr. Aziz, yes we know facegen... But it is an commercial software and very slow. We try face generate in a thesis research.

Mr. Chacko thanks for links.

here is a list of free softwares

https://nic.med.harvard.edu/sites/nic.med.harvard.edu/files/user_files/ListofFreeSoftware.pdf

You must certainly look at VTK and ITK,

but in addition to that, you may want to look at:

OpenCV (http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/) and

VXL (http://vxl.sourceforge.net/)

that are both Computer Vision libraries.

I presume that the 2D images that you have of the faces are actual video / photographs, and not Slices (as in the case of the Visible Human), http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/

Is that right ?

If so, then, Computer Vision libraries is probably what you need.

Thanks Mr.Ibanez

In addition have in mind that first you should generate depth maps (that give you information on the z-axis). Then it will be easier to construct the mesh. Applications the use the Microsoft Kinect device do exactly that.

No. Not yet. We finished our project without an application. 

I also want to construct the 3D model from 2D images. However, I still cannot find the good solution now.