Facial Model Analysis for 2D Caricature Generating Systems

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new interactive 2D caricature face generating system to create caricatures with various styles. Analysis and definition of import facial feature points as pattern matching primitives are discussed. Users define local coordinates of control feature points for each original real image, and these points will determine a unique transformed vector for matching with pre-generated facial models and features from database. Selected basic models will be re-drew for final representation according to the proportion of input real images. A 2D caricature face created from original facial characteristics can be utilized in several virtual Internet real-time applications, such as Internet games, net-meeting, distance learning, web advertisement, and so on. Due to the advantageous features of privacy, security, amusement and compact file size, the 2D caricature faces generation algorithm becomes a noticeable research topic.