A novel approach for virtual facial shape cloning and makeup reproducing

Facial shape cloning (FSC) is a task aiming to simulate the plastic surgery result of reshaping a user's face to bear analogy to a model's facial appearance. Facial cosmetic reproducing (FMR) is another task intending to emulate the transfer of the cosmetic effects on a model face to the user's face. This paper presents a method which can perform both the FSC and the FMR. This proposed method features the approach of synthesis by example (SBE) meaning that a user can accomplish both tasks by just supplying an example picture with the desired model face or the cosmetic effects. The techniques devised in this method exploit no sophisticated domain knowledge in facial plastic surgery and physical modelling of cosmetic materials. The users need not to have any professional background in image processing and synthesis. Besides the above prominent features, another major superiority of proposed method over other existing methods is that the devised techniques can generically achieve the synthesis of any facial reshaping and cosmetic effect on the provided example picture. We need not to dedicatedly develop different synthesizing techniques for various designated reshaping or cosmetic effects. Thus, the design complexity of the system is significantly reduced.