Morphing Facial Expressions from Artistic Drawings

摘要

We present a new method for morphing facial expressions obtained from 2D real line drawings in this paper. Different with any other previous approaches, artistic drawings are used as examples to construct the 3D facial models. As the first step,a metamorphing algorithm using distance transform is utilized to produce the 2D morphing. Next, we utilize the PhotoFit function from FaceGen as a tool to synthesize 3D facial models based on 2D slices. Finally, a smooth transition between different facial expressions is produced. The resulted animation confirms the efficiency and effectiveness of our method.