Title :
An algorithm for automatic skin smoothing in digital portraits
Author :
Lee, Changhyung ; Schramm, Morgan T. ; Boutin, Mireille ; Allebach, Jan P.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
We describe an automatic method for beautifying digital portraits by smoothing the skin of the face. The method builds on existing face detection and face feature alignment technology to automatically segment the face and neck areas to be smoothed. A smoothing filter is then applied to these areas. The resulting portraits are enhanced in a subtle and natural fashion.
Keywords :
face recognition; image segmentation; smoothing methods; automatic skin smoothing; digital portraits; face detection; face feature alignment technology; face segmentation; neck area segmentation; smoothing filter; Computer vision; Hafnium; Image processing; Machine intelligence; Pattern analysis; Pattern recognition; Sampling methods; Skin; Smoothing methods; Surgery;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing (ICIP), 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5653-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1522-4880
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414430
