Title :
Holistic synthesis of human face images
Author :
Maciel, João ; Costeira, João
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Sistemas e Robotica, Inst. Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
This paper presents a method to automatically synthesize human face images from holistic descriptions. We compactly represent the face set by a small set of prototypes, which can be used in simple ways to generate controlled morphings. This becomes possible because separation of 2D-shape and texture provides a faithful, closed and convex representation of images, and smoothes the mappings between images and their properties. With this approach, the user watches an image being continuously morphed according to his indications, and the synthesized images always obey the natural physiognomic constraints
Keywords :
image morphing; image representation; image texture; 2D-shape separation; closed image representation; controlled morphing generation; convex image representation; face set representation; holistic descriptions; holistic synthesis; human face images; image synthesis; physiognomic constraints; prototypes; synthesized images; texture separation; Automatic generation control; Control system synthesis; Face; Glass; Humans; Image sequences; Pixel; Prototypes; Shape; Watches;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1999. Proceedings., 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5041-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.1999.757608
