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Real-time exemplar-based face sketch synthesis

  • Yibing Song
  • , Linchao Bao
  • , Qingxiong Yang*
  • , Ming-Hsuan Yang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

This paper proposes a simple yet effective face sketch synthesis method. Similar to existing exemplar-based methods, a training dataset containing photo-sketch pairs is required, and a K-NN photo patch search is performed between a test photo and every training exemplar for sketch patch selection. Instead of using the Markov Random Field to optimize global sketch patch selection, this paper formulates face sketch synthesis as an image denoising problem which can be solved efficiently using the proposed method. Real-time performance can be obtained on a state-of-the-art GPU. Meanwhile quantitative evaluations on face sketch recognition and user study demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. In addition, the proposed method can be directly extended to the temporal domain for consistent video sketch synthesis, which is of great importance in digital entertainment. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision, ECCV 2014
Subtitle of host publication13th European Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages800-813
Volume8694 LNCS
EditionPART 6
ISBN (Print)9783319105987
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2014
Event13th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2014 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: 6 Sept 201412 Sept 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8694 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2014
PlaceSwitzerland
CityZurich
Period6/09/1412/09/14

Research Keywords

  • Face Hallucination
  • Texture Synthesis

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