Overview
In this project, I explored face morphing techniques to produce a seamless transformation from one face to another. The process involved defining facial keypoints, computing a midway face, generating a morph sequence, and creating the mean face of a population. Additionally, I experimented with caricatures by extrapolating from the population mean and morphing my face onto another gender.
Part 1: Defining Correspondences
To begin the morphing process, I needed to define pairs of corresponding points on both images. I used the provided labeling tool to select keypoints on my face and another person's face
After selecting the keypoints, I computed a Delaunay triangulation on the midway shape to create a triangulation that would be used for morphing.
Part 2: Computing the Mid-way Face
The mid-way face is computed by averaging the keypoint locations of both faces to obtain the average shape. Then, both faces are warped into this average shape using affine transformations on each triangle in the triangulation mesh. Finally, the colors of the two warped images are averaged to produce the mid-way face.
Part 3: The Morph Sequence
Using the morphing function, I generated a sequence of images that gradually transform my face into Hanlin's face.
Part 4: The "Mean Face" of a Population
For this part, I used the provided Danish faces dataset to compute the average face shape of the population. I warped select faces in the dataset to the average shape.
The computed mean face represents the average appearance of the population.
I then warped my face into the average geometry and also warped the average face into my geometry to observe the differences.
Part 5: Caricatures and Gender Morphing
By extrapolating from the population mean, I created a caricature of my face. This was done by amplifying the difference between my facial features and the average facial features.
Additionally, I explored gender morphing by transforming my face towards the average female face from the dataset. This involved morphing both the shape and appearance to achieve a realistic transformation.
