Examples of alignment performance on a single subject’s face. Rows 1, 2 and 3 illustrate the alignment for initial warp perturbation of 10, 7.5 and 5 pixels RMS-PE respectively. The first column shows the initial warp, while from the second and fifth column shows the resulting alignment from the holistic active appearance model (AAM), the exhaustive local search (ELS), the convex quadratic fitting (CQF), and the robust convex quadratic fitting (RCQF) methods, respectively. The resulting alignment error listed under each picture is computed in the same way as explained in Section 5.1.