Controllable and Gradual Facial Blemishes Retouching via Physics-Based Modelling

Face retouching aims to remove facial blemishes, such as pigmentation and acne, and still retain fine-grain texture details. Nevertheless, existing methods just remove the blemishes but focus little on realism of the intermediate process, limiting their use more to beautifying facial images on socia...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Shuai, Chenhao, Cai, Rizhao, Dissanayake, Bandara, Newman, Amanda, Dayan Guan, Sng, Dennis, Li, Ling, Kot, Alex
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LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 19.06.2024
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Controllability
Modelling
Retouching
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Summary:Face retouching aims to remove facial blemishes, such as pigmentation and acne, and still retain fine-grain texture details. Nevertheless, existing methods just remove the blemishes but focus little on realism of the intermediate process, limiting their use more to beautifying facial images on social media rather than being effective tools for simulating changes in facial pigmentation and ance. Motivated by this limitation, we propose our Controllable and Gradual Face Retouching (CGFR). Our CGFR is based on physical modelling, adopting Sum-of-Gaussians to approximate skin subsurface scattering in a decomposed melanin and haemoglobin color space. Our CGFR offers a user-friendly control over the facial blemishes, achieving realistic and gradual blemishes retouching. Experimental results based on actual clinical data shows that CGFR can realistically simulate the blemishes' gradual recovering process.
ISSN:2331-8422