A Practical Approach for Identity-Embodied 3D Artistic Face Modeling

This paper describes a practical technique for 3D artistic face modelingwhere a human identity can be inserted into a 3D artistic face. This approach can automatically extract the human identity froma 3D human face model and then transfer it to a 3D artistic facemodel in a controllable manner. Its core idea is to construct a facegeometry space and a face texture space based on a precollected3D face dataset. Then, these spaces are used to extract and blendthe face models together based on their facial identities and styles. This approach can enable a novice user to interactively generatevarious artistic faces quickly using a slider control. Also, it can run inreal-time on an off-the-shelf computer without GPU acceleration. This approach can be broadly used in various 3D artistic facemodeling applications such as a rapid creation of a cartoon crowdwith different cartoon characters