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Example-based caricature generation with exaggeration control

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Caricature is a popular artistic media widely used for effective communications. The fascination of caricature lies in its expressive depiction of a person’s prominent features, which is usually realized through the so-called exaggeration technique. This paper proposes a new example-based automatic caricature generation system supporting the exaggeration of both the shape of facial components and the spatial relationships among the components. Given the photograph of a face, the system automatically computes the feature vectors representing the shape of facial components as well as the spatial relationship among the components. Those features are exaggerated and then used to search the learning database for the corresponding caricature components and for arranging the retrieved components to create the caricature. Experimental results show that our system can generate the caricatures of the example style capturing the prominent features of the subjects.

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This research was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 25280037 and 26240015, the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China (No. Q12F020007), and the Zhejiang Provincial Education Department, China (No. Y201121352).

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  1. University of Yamanashi, 4-3-11 Takeda, Kofu, Yamanashi, 400-8511, Japan

    Wei Yang, Masahiro Toyoura & Xiaoyang Mao

  2. Hangzhou Dianzi University, No.2 Street, Jianggan, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Jiayi Xu

  3. Aanatano-Brand Laboratory Inc., 1-5-20-502, Nagamachi, Taihaku, Sendai, Japan

    Fumio Ohnuma

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Yang, W., Toyoura, M., Xu, J. et al. Example-based caricature generation with exaggeration control. Vis Comput 32, 383–392 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-015-1177-9

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