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This paper presents a novel data-driven method for creating realistic face models based on estimated high-level feature control models. Our method takes as examples 3D face scans. By bringing scanned models into full correspondence with a model fitting approach, we apply principal component analysis (PCA) to the exemplar shapes of each facial feature to build a shape space. We compute a set of face anthropometric measurements to parameterize example feature shapes in the measurement spaces. Using the PCA coefficients as a compact shape representation, we approach the shape synthesis problem by forming scattered data interpolation functions that are devoted to the generation of desired shape by taking the anthropometric parameters as input. The correspondence among all exemplar textures is obtained by parameterizing a 3D generic mesh over a 2D image domain. The new feature texture with desired attributes is synthesized by interpolating the example textures.
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Zhang, Y. (2007). Data-Driven Feature Control Models for Creating Virtual Faces. In: Gervasi, O., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2007. ICCSA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74477-1_57
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