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Automatic caricature synthesis is to transform the input face to an exaggerated one. It is becoming an interesting research topic, but it remains an open issue to specify the caricature’s pattern for the input face. This paper proposed a novel pattern prediction method based on MR (manifold regularization), which comprises three steps. Firstly, we learn the caricature pattern by manifold dimension reduction, and select some low dimensional caricature pattern as the labels for corresponsive true faces. Secondly, manifold regularization is performed to build a semi-supervised regression between true faces and the pattern labels. In the third step of offline phase, the input face is mapped to a pattern label by the learnt regressive model, and the pattern label is further transformed to caricature parameters by a locally linear reconstruction algorithm. This approach takes advantage of manifold structure lying in both true faces and caricatures. Experiments show that, low dimensional manifold represents the caricature pattern well and the semi-supervised regressive model from manifold regularization can predict the target caricature pattern successfully.
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Liu, J., Chen, Y., Xie, J., Gao, X., Gao, W. (2009). Semi-supervised Learning of Caricature Pattern from Manifold Regularization. In: Huet, B., Smeaton, A., Mayer-Patel, K., Avrithis, Y. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Modeling . MMM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92892-8_42
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