Real-Time Face Decorations of Enlarging Eyes and Whitening Skin in Video Based on Face Posture Estimation by Particle Filter

Norikazu Ikoma; Gefan Zhang

doi:10.20965/jaciii.2013.p0392

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JACIII Vol.17 No.3 pp. 392-403

doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2013.p0392

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Real-Time Face Decorations of Enlarging Eyes and Whitening Skin in Video Based on Face Posture Estimation by Particle Filter

Norikazu Ikoma and Gefan Zhang

Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui-cho, Tobata-ku, Kita-kyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan

Received:

December 2, 2012

Accepted:

February 24, 2013

Published:

May 20, 2013

Keywords:

face decoration, posture estimation, video, particle filter, real-time

Abstract

Decorations of face such as enlarging eyes, whitening skin, rendering face slim, and so on are commercially successful in amusement arcades especially in Japan for still image and off-line processing. This paper proposes to decorate human face in video on-line and in real-time processing. Face posture estimation using particle filter plays a key role to decorate the face by precisely determining position of the eyes as well as determining regional position of face. Our proposed method conducts two decorations, enlarging eyes and whitening skin, based on the estimation result of face posture. Real-time implementation of the proposed method has been demonstrated for real scenes of indoor situation.

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N. Ikoma and G. Zhang, “Real-Time Face Decorations of Enlarging Eyes and Whitening Skin in Video Based on Face Posture Estimation by Particle Filter,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.17 No.3, pp. 392-403, 2013.

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[2] [2] G. Zhang, N. Ikoma, H. Kawano, and H.Maeda, “Decoration of Human Face in Video Image by Estimating Eye Positions with Particle Filter,” Proc. of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conf., Xi’an China, Oct. 18-21, PID:118, 2011.

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[16] [16] D. Takahashi and N. Okamoto, “Semi real-time algorithm for posture estimation of the human face using a 3-D reference picture,” Proc. of Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 927-930, 2004.

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