A Feature Based Face Image Morphing System

[[abstract]]現今社會社群網站、交友網站發達，許多的網站、論壇、app都會要求要設置大頭照，有些人會因為隱私的問題或是對照片感到不夠滿意而不想放自己的照片讓人看到。 Morphing是一種影像處理技術，其目的是用來將一張影像流暢地轉換成另一張影像，Morphing技術被運用在許多領域來製造出有趣的特殊視覺效果。 在這篇論文裡，我們開發出一個方便使用者的臉部圖像變形系統，結合使用者的臉部圖像和其他照片裡的特徵，來做出獨一無二的照片，透過一個簡單的介面與OpenCV的人臉偵測和輪廓偵測等支援輔助，我們的系統讓使用者直接在兩張照片影像上畫幾條特徵線就能夠做出生動的Morphing動畫。而實驗結果顯示出，我們的系統所做出的照片，不僅有助於保護個人隱私，還可提升大頭照的吸引力。[[abstract]]Nowadays, tons of community websites and dating websites are introduced to the society. Many sites, forums and mobile application would ask users to upload their personal photos. Lots of people do not want to upload their actual personal photos, either for the reason that there is a concern for the privacy, or just a feeling of dissatisfaction with the photos. Morphing is an image processing technique which aims to seamlessly transform one image to another. Morphing technique has been used in many places to create interesting special visual effects. In this paper, we develop a user-friendly facial image morphing system which creates customized unique photos by combining user's facial image with features extracted from other photo. With the support of simple Face Detection interface, contour detection and OpenCV, our system allows users to interactively make vivid morphing animation by directly drawing a few feature lines on the source and destination photo images. The experiment results show that our system is not only helpful for protecting individual privacy, but also useful for increasing the attractiveness of users’ head shot photos.[[note]]碩