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An '''active appearance model (AAM)''' is a [[computer vision]] algorithm for matching a [[statistical model]] of object shape and appearance to a new image. They are built during a training phase. A set of images, together with coordinates of landmarks that appear in all of the images, is provided to the training supervisor.

The model was first introduced by Edwards, Cootes and Taylor in the context of face analysis at the 3rd International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, 1998.<ref>{{cite doi|10.1109/AFGR.1998.670965}}</ref> Cootes, Edwards and Taylor further described the approach at the European Conference on Computer Vision in 1998the same year.<ref>{{cite doi|10.1007/BFb0054760}}</ref><ref>{{cite doi|10.1109/34.927467}}</ref> The approach is widely used for matching and tracking faces and for [[medical imaging|medical image interpretation]].

The algorithm uses the difference between the current estimate of appearance and the target image to drive an [[Optimization (mathematics)|optimization]] process.