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http://dx.doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2018.19.1.213

A Facial Morphing Method Using Delaunay Triangle of Facial Landmarks  

Park, Kyung Nam (Division of IT Convergence, Korea Nazarene University)
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Journal of Digital Contents Society / v.19, no.1, 2018 , pp. 213-220 More about this Journal
Abstract
Face morphing, one of the most powerful image processing techniques that are often used in image processing and computer graphic fields, as it is a technique to change the image progressively and naturally from the original image to the target image. In this paper, we propose a method to generate Delaunay triangles using the facial landmark vertices generated by the Dlib face landmark detector and to implement morphing through warping and cross dissolving of Delaunay triangles between the original image and the target image. In this paper, we generate vertex points for face not manually but automatically, which is the major feature of the face such as eye, eyebrow, nose, and mouth, and is used to generate Delaunay triangles automatically which is the main characteristic of our face morphing method. Simulations show that we can add vertices manually and get more natural morphing results.
Keywords
Delaunay Triangle; Facial Landmarks; Morphing; Warping;
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