Synthesis of Facial Expressions in Photographs Characteristics, Approaches, and Challenges

• Published in: ACM computing surveys Vol. 51; no. 6; pp. 1 - 35
• Main Authors: Testa, Rafael Luiz, Corrêa, Cléber Gimenez, Machado-Lima, Ariane, Nunes, Fátima L. S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 30.11.2019; Association for Computing Machinery
• Subjects: Biometrics; Computer graphics; Computer science; Computing methodologies; Deformation; Image manipulation; Image-based rendering; Interactive systems; Machine learning; Mapping; Synthesis; Training; facial expression generation; facial expression mapping; expression transfer; Facial expression synthesis; facial expression cloning

The synthesis of facial expressions has applicationsin areas such as interactive games, biometrics systems, and training of people with disorders, among others. Although this is an area relatively well explored in the literature, there are no recent studies proposing to systematize an overview of re...