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Method

Given a set of non-rigidly registered images, we can build a generative appearance model that captures both the shape and intensity variation across the set, by performing a joint statistical analysis of the warp fields 3#3 resulting from the NRR and the shape-free intensity patterns 4#4 measured in the frame of the mean shape.

5#5 = 6#6

We can use the generative property of the model to synthesise a large set of images, 7#7 which, if the model is good, should form a cloud that overlaps the cloud of training images.

2#2