Abstract
In this paper, we propose an illustration drawing system reflecting Kansei, the impression of the face. The system has the following advantages: a face in the illustration looks like the person in theoriginal picture; it can emphasize the person's impression; illustrations with expression can be obtained; whole body illustrations can be obtained; direction of the face can be adjusted in accordance with the body part; it has excellent interfaces; it can reflect user's sensitivity; and change of clothes is easy. In the system, first, a skin color region, a face part region and the edges are extracted from the inputted reference face image taken by a CCD camera. Position and shape of eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth and jaw in the image are extracted. Next, a face illustration with emphasized characteristics is drawn. Face expression is given to the illustration by using a face parts database in the system. Each part has a value for facial expression calculated from many questionnaires. Then, the hair type can be changed to keep a harmony of the body and the face. The face part is connected to the body part illustration which a user chooses. In addition, a user can select glasses from a glass database and they can be added to the illustration. The effectiveness of the proposed system is confirmed through various evaluation experiments.
