Flexible facial morphing. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kao, Yang-Ta; Yang, Fu-Wen; Lin, Hwei Jen
• Is Part Of: International journal of computational science and engineering. Volume 11:Number 3(2016)
• Page Start: 312
• Page End: 321
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: flexible facial morphing -- active appearance model -- AAM -- image morphing -- triangulation algorithm -- linear interpolation -- control points -- multimedia -- image processing -- computational photography; Computer science -- Mathematics -- Periodicals; Computer simulation -- Mathematical aspects -- Periodicals; Computational intelligence -- Periodicals; 004.015105
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-7185

Abstract

In the paper, we propose a facial morphing system that uses the triangulation algorithm and linear interpolation associated with a set of indicated control points to introduce a sequence of intermediate images between the source image and the target image. The proposed system provides a guidance mode for the users so that they can follow the online instruction to mark each of the control points. With those control points the system can automatically perform triangulation algorithm and produce the intermediate images for morphing. The experimental results show that the proposed system is flexible to use and provides quite natural morphing results. In addition, the system has no limit to the shape, size, and plane rotation of the faces in both the source image and the target image.