Cartoon Face Generation based on Parts-by-parts Morphing

Abstract

Portrait icons have been increasingly used in various scenes including social networking services (SNS). Popular commercial systems to electronically create cartoons require users to select "part illustration images" similarly looking to the users' faces. These systems provide sample images to be selected by the users, and synthesize the selected images to complete the cartoon generation. However, this approach is often difficult to create cartoons similarly-looking to the input real face images when there are no sample images which appropriately represent the features of input faces. In this paper, we propose the technique which generates cartoons applying a morphing method to multiple sample part illustration images. As a result, this technique relieves the dependency of quality on the adequacy of sample part illustration images. Also, the technique realizes to generate part illustration images that well reflect characteristics of the input real face images.