“Improved Automatic Caricature by Feature Normalization and Exaggeration” by Mo, Neumann and Lewis
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- Improved Automatic Caricature by Feature Normalization and Exaggeration
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This sketch presents an improved formalization of automatic caricature that extends a standard approach to account for the population variance of facial features. Caricature is generally considered a rendering that emphasizes the distinctive features of a particular face. A formalization of this idea, which we term “Exaggerating the Difference from the Mean” (EDFM), is widely accepted among caricaturists [Redman 1984] and was first implemented in a groundbreaking computer program by [Brennan 1985]. Brennan’s “Caricature generator” program produced caricatures by manually defining a polyline drawing with topology corresponding to a frontal, mean, face-shape drawing, and then displacing the vertices by a constant factor away from the mean shape. Many psychological studies have applied the “Caricature Generator” or EDFM idea to investigate caricature- related issues in face perception [Rhodes 1997].
References:
Brennan, S. E. 1985. Caricature generator: the dynamic exaggeration of faces by computer. Leonardo 18, 3, 170–178.
Lee, D-D. and Seung, H-S. 1999. Learning the parts of objects by non-negative matrix factorization. Nature 401, 788–791.
Redman, L. 1984. How to draw caricatures. Contemporary Books
