| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 資訊管理系 === 96 === Pursuing or maintaining beautifulness has nowadays become a trend in modern society, especially among the celebrity community. In some cases, one may choose to adopt drastic procedures to alter his or her facial or body features to achieve the desired beauty, thus the blossom of industry on cosmetic plastic surgeries.
However, as performing the related surgeries are still considered intrusive and costly, it is better to preview the result before a surgery is actually carried out. As many believe that facial appearance matters most, we have developed a system that not only offers the previewing functionality, but also allows users to interactively fine-tune the desired results, thus making our system a useful companion tool for facial cosmetic surgeries.
While existing tools generally entail manual effort to locate or align facial features, our system, characterized by a scheme of automatic feature extraction, eliminates the need of user assistance. Furthermore, for convenience, we have constructed a database of facial features to facilitate the facial alteration process.
In addition to demonstrating the rendered results to justify our claims, we also believe that our framework could also find its use in other applications as well. For example, our system could help to create an avatar of arbitrary facial appearance, and such functionality would be very welcome for today's IM (instant messaging) tools, such as MSN or Skype.
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