3D modeling system of human face and full 3D facial caricaturing

Proposes a method for modeling a 3D face from the 2D facial images captured from the surrounding 2D cameras by which the color texture and surface shape information of the face are synchronously measured. A 3D facial caricaturing method is proposed by using the 3D (the polygon data) face model. An automatic method for extracting regions of the facial parts is proposed, and the feature points are extracted from those regions. We propose a mesh model composed of 44 feature points and 82 meshes to cover a head. To generate the caricature from this polygon data the individuality feature is defined in value by the difference of the feature points between the input face and the mean face, which was defined from the average of many input faces