Three-dimensional measurement of human face with structured-light illumination

The potential of three-dimensional scanning with structured-light illumination was evaluated for measurement of human face geometry. The aim was to create virtual human face models from the data scanned on real people, and to characterize the precision of such measurements. The quality of scanning with structured light proved to be sufficient to let us quantitatively parametrize the human face for anthropometric purposes. Values resulting from the distance measurements between the selected landmarks on obtained models were in agreement with the published data.