EasyToon: cartoon personalization using face photos

ABSTRACT

In this demo, we present a family photo album based cartoon personalization system, EasyToon. Using the family photo album as the candidate pool, a personalized cartoon image is obtained in two main steps. First, the best face candidate is selected from the album interactively. Then a personalized cartoon image is automatically synthesized by lending the selected face into the target cartoon image. By integrating state of the art computer vision and graphics technologies and effective UI design EasyToon can generate a personalized cartoon storyboard easily and quickly.

REFERENCES

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.4 IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION
      I.4.9 Applications

General Terms:
Algorithms, Experimentation

Keywords:
cartoon personalization, family photo album