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Biological property-based artificial scar synthesis using inverse lighting

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The present study proposes a method to extract and apply biological properties to naturally realize a scar texture on the skin. The ratio of melanin to hemoglobin in the skin, which determines inter- and intra-individual variations in skin appearance, is extracted as a biological property. First, a color table is defined using parameterized biological properties. Using an inverse-lighting equation that we define, biological parameters and rendering parameters are extracted from a single obtained or downloaded scar image without taking a picture of a scar directly. The extracted parameters are used to realize the most appropriate scar on the actual skin. To express the geometric depth of the scar, a tessellation process is employed. Finally, we provide the experimental results from the evaluation of our method.

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This research was partially supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded (NRF-2010:2014-0008673).

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    Taeyoung Choi & Seokhyun Ghan

  2. Xicom Lab, Division of Media Software, Sungkyul University, Anyang, South Korea

    Seongah Chin

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Choi, T., Ghan, S. & Chin, S. Biological property-based artificial scar synthesis using inverse lighting. Multimedia Systems 24, 407–418 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-017-0564-7

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