Automatic target image detection for morphing

作者：Vyas Jaladhi P^*; Joshi Manjunath V; Raval Mehul S

来源：Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2015, 27: 28-43.

DOI：10.1016/j.jvcir.2014.12.005

• 3D texton
• K means clustering
• Chi-square distance measure
• Facial features extraction
• Control points detection
• Target image detection
• Delaunay triangulation
• Image morphing

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for automatic target image detection for morphing based on 3D textons and contrast. Given the source image of a human frontal face and training images with human and animal faces, our algorithm automatically finds the target image from the database of animal images. There are three major advantages of our approach: (1) it solves the problem of manual target selection as done by the researchers in morphing; (2) automatic target detection achieves smooth transition from source to destination image; and (3) control points are automatically detected for morphing because the algorithm detects the target based on the matching features. The experiments were conducted with images of six different animals viz, cheetah, lion, deer, red fox, snow leopard and rhesus monkey. For a subjective verification, a large number of human annotations are used.

• 出版日期2015-2