SMD files require lists of corresponding points and image files.
// Text file describing data to build model
// Note that comments can appear almost anywhere
// Define the base model name and directory into which it will be put
model_dir: /bim/data/BMVC02/RawGrey_90/
model_name: isbe
// Define the base name of the parts file
// The file face_front.parts will be loaded from the model directory
parts_file: face_front
// Define the base name of the triangles file
// The file face_front.tri will be loaded from the model directory
tri_file: face_front
// Directory containing images
image_dir: /home/data/Faces/images/
// Directory containing points
points_dir: /home/data/Faces/points/
// shape_aligner can be None, align_cog_2d, align_similar_2d, align_affine_2d,...
shape_aligner: align_similar_2d
// Define how to choose the number of modes to retain for the
// shape, texture and combined appearance models
// The number will be chosen to explain proportion of the variance,
// constrained by min and max
shape_modes: { min: 0 max: 999 prop: 0.90 }
tex_modes: { min: 0 max: 999 prop: 0.90 }
combined_modes: { min: 0 max: 999 prop: 0.999 }
// Define how the vector models will be limited to plausible values
// Valid limiters are mdpm_box_limits or mdpm_prob_limits.
// The default is mdpm_box_limits with sd_limit set to 3.0
// However the example given here is believed to be much better.
params_limiter: mdpm_prob_limits
{
acceptance_prob: 0.99
}
// Number of pixels to represent with highest resolution texture model
n_pixels: 5000
// Define whether to treat images as colour (RGB) or a greyscale (Grey)
// Also defines whether the model is to be colour or greyscale
colour: Grey // Alternatives: Grey,RGB,...
// Texture Sampler can be vapm_triangle_sampler<vxl_byte>, vapm_tri_grad_sampler<float>, vapm_profile_set_sampler, etc.
tex_sampler: vapm_profile_set_sampler
{
profile_sampler: vsml_profile_sampler_2d<vxl_byte>
prof_hi: 2
prof_lo: -2
width: 1
step_size: 1.0
use_gradient: 0
}
// Define the normalisation to be applied when building and using the texture model.
// tex_aligner can be None, align_linear_1d, ...
tex_aligner: align_linear_1d
// shape_wts define how to compute relative scaling of shape & tex.
// shape_wts can be `EqualVar', `EqualEffect',...
shape_wts: EqualVar
// Image Pyramid Builder can be gauss_byte, gauss_float, grad_float ...
pyr_builder: gauss_byte
// Define the maximum number of image pyramid levels to build
max_im_pyr_levels: 5
// Define the model resolution levels to build
// Level 0 contains pixels
// Level 1 is half the size in each dimension
// Level 2 is half again etc
min_level: 0
max_level: 2
// Details of points : images
training_set:
{
zoel/zoel090o00.pts : zoel/zoel090o00.jpg
zaig/zaig090o00.pts : zaig/zaig090o00.jpg
warm/warm090o00.pts : warm/warm090o00.jpg
tonl/tonl090o00.pts : tonl/tonl090o00.jpg
timc/timc090o00.pts : timc/timc090o00.jpg
}