3D Face Analysis: Advances and Perspectives.

In the past decade, research on 3D face analysis has been extensively developed, and this study briefly reviews the progress achieved in data acquisition, algorithms, and experimental methodologies, for the issues of face recognition, facial expression recognition, gender and ethnicity classification, age estimation, etc., especially focusing on that after the availability of FRGC v2.0. It further points out several challenges to deal with for more efficient and reliable systems in the real world.