Virtual face implant for visual character variations
Mustafa Kasap, S. Chague, Nadia Magnenat‐Thalmann · Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) · 2011
One of the main goals in populating the virtual environments (VEs) with human body models is to increase the visual realism of the simulation. Population created with a template model cloning technique is perceived by the viewer as a synthetic crowd. To increase the degree of the visual realism, mainly the characters are generated with various body sizes and solid skin colors. In the case of avatars, a geometric model is customized according to the features of the real counterpart. In this paper we represent a simple and efficient method to improve the visual variance of the virtual characters by implanting a low resolution on any portrait face image. The effect of this model customization process is improved by adapting the whole body skin color with the average color tone calculated over the input face image.