Abstract
We present a method of generating realistic views of the head of any individual from a single photograph of the individual and a generic model of a human head.
The generic model is distorted so that it projects correctly onto the photograph. This is done by finding the least energy position of a springframe model, some of whose vertices are constrained to lie on particular features in the photograph.
This gives us a model of the individual, which is then texture mapped using the original photograph to generate the final view. This is perceived to be a realistic view of the individual, even if the model is quite crude.
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Aitchison, A.C., Craw, I. (1991). Synthetic Images of Faces — An Approach to Model-Based Face Recognition. In: Mowforth, P. (eds) BMVC91. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1921-0_29
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