PopEye: Bioanthropologic app for the automatic positioning of anatomical landmarks in 2D and 3D

CELIA CINTAS; GLORIA BIANCHI; NAHUEL DEFOSSÉ; CLAUDIO DELRIEUX; MIRSHA QUINTO SÁNCHEZ; ROLANDO GONZALEZ-JOSÉ

Rosario

Congreso; 4ta. Conferencia Internacional de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Bioinformática (SolBio) y 4to. Congreso Argentino de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional (4CAB2C); 2013

CIFASIS-CONICET

The automatic collection of 2D and 3D landmarks? coordinates in massive databases is at an incipient stage due to occurrence of technical, economic and operative difficulties: expensive devices, or non portable, able to take 3D points on the objetcs under study and the landmarking process being done manually by trained personnel with the subsequent time cost and operation mistakes?risk. This work introduces Popeye, an app for automatic detection and acquisition of 2D facial landmarks which allows to solve practical and convenient the landmarks? positioning in big photo shootings sets. This software is aimed to improve the surveillance of external phenotypic information intended for Quantitative Genetic and to work with 2D data, of great utility to feed massive databases used in forensic phenotypic extraction for DNA.