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Techniques for Mimicry and Identity Blending Using Morph Space PCA

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We describe a face modelling tool allowing image representation in a high-dimensional morph space, compression to a small number of coefficients using PCA [1], and expression transfer between face models by projection of the source morph description (a parameterisation of complex facial motion) into the target morph space. This technique allows creation of an identity-blended avatar model whose high degree of realism enables diverse applications in visual psychophysics, stimulus generation for perceptual experiments, animation and affective computing.

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  1. University College London, UK

    Fintan Nagle, Harry Griffin & Alan Johnston

  2. UCL CoMPLEX, UK

    Fintan Nagle, Alan Johnston & Peter McOwan

  3. Queen Mary University of London, UK

    Peter McOwan

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    Jong-Il Park

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, 305-701, Daejeon, South Korea

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Nagle, F., Griffin, H., Johnston, A., McOwan, P. (2013). Techniques for Mimicry and Identity Blending Using Morph Space PCA. In: Park, JI., Kim, J. (eds) Computer Vision - ACCV 2012 Workshops. ACCV 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7729. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37484-5_25

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