Title

Human facial illustrations: Creation and psychophysical evaluation

Authors

Authors

B. Gooch; E. Reinhard;A. Gooch

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Abbreviated Journal Title

ACM Trans. Graph.

Keywords

algorithms; human factors; caricatures; super-portraits; validation; BRIGHTNESS PERCEPTION; FACE RECOGNITION; CARICATURES; DISTINCTIVENESS; EXAGGERATION; PHOTOGRAPHS; Computer Science, Software Engineering

Abstract

We present a method for creating black-and-white illustrations from photographs of human faces. In addition an interactive technique is demonstrated for deforming these black-and-white facial illustrations to create caricatures which highlight and exaggerate representative facial features. We evaluate the effectiveness of the resulting images through psychophysical studies to assess accuracy and speed in both recognition and learning tasks. These studies show that the facial illustrations and caricatures generated using our techniques are as effective as photographs in recognition tasks. For the learning task we find that illustrations are learned two times faster than photographs and caricatures are learned one and a half times faster than photographs. Because our techniques produce images that are effective at communicating complex information, they are useful in a number of potential applications, ranging from entertainment and education to low bandwidth telecommunications and psychology research.

Journal Title

Acm Transactions on Graphics

Volume

23

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

27

Last Page

44

WOS Identifier

WOS:000188554700002

ISSN

0730-0301

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