<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide systems and methods for modeling texture and reflectance of human skin, and for reusing facial motion capture data by transforming one person's facial motions into another person's facial motions. <P>SOLUTION: In the method for processing a facial image, one face is iirradiatelluminated with multiple different light sources, range map data are measured from the illumination, image data are measured from the illumination, a general purpose face template is applied to the range map data to reject noise that can be associated with the range map data, a 3D surface is derived from the range map data, surface normals to the 3D surface are computed, the surface normals and the image data are processed to calculate an albedo map, the albedo map is a special type of texture map in which each sample describes the diffuse reflectance of the surface of a face at a particular point on the surface, and the light source is at a fixed position to a still measuring instrument. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT 
FACIAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM