Blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics-based modelling
Facial image retouching aims to remove facial blemishes from images, such as acne and pigmentation, and still retain textures and details. Nevertheless, existing methods just completely remove the blemishes but focus little on realism of the intermediate process, limiting their use more to beautifyi...
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| author | Shuai, Chenhao |
| author2 | Alex Chichung Kot |
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| description | Facial image retouching aims to remove facial blemishes from images, such as acne and pigmentation, and still retain textures and details. Nevertheless, existing methods just completely 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 acne to demonstrate the efficacy of skincare product to consumers or to assess the skincare product development. To bridge this critical gap, an efficient framework is proposed for simulating changes in skin blemishes. This method is based on prior knowledge that links the appearance of acne and pigmentation to melanin and heamoglobin chromophores under the skin surface. This novel framework models the spatial distributions of chromophores under the optical scattering properties of the skin. A unique feature of this framework is the precise and stable manipulation of parameters of chromophore distributions, thereby enabling control over the appearance of skin blemishes. The proposed framework is validated using a comprehensive dataset containing temporal data on long-term skin blemish changes. Experiment results show that this framework achieves highly realistic simulations. Furthermore, a visual perception study has also demonstrated the authenticity and quality of the proposed simulation method. Moreover, a user-friendly graphic interface is implemented to manipulate the facial blemishes interactively, achieving realistic and gradual blemishes retouching with an easy access. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1735772024-02-16T15:42:31Z Blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics-based modelling Shuai, Chenhao Alex Chichung Kot School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering eackot@ntu.edu.sg Computer and Information Science Facial image retouching aims to remove facial blemishes from images, such as acne and pigmentation, and still retain textures and details. Nevertheless, existing methods just completely 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 acne to demonstrate the efficacy of skincare product to consumers or to assess the skincare product development. To bridge this critical gap, an efficient framework is proposed for simulating changes in skin blemishes. This method is based on prior knowledge that links the appearance of acne and pigmentation to melanin and heamoglobin chromophores under the skin surface. This novel framework models the spatial distributions of chromophores under the optical scattering properties of the skin. A unique feature of this framework is the precise and stable manipulation of parameters of chromophore distributions, thereby enabling control over the appearance of skin blemishes. The proposed framework is validated using a comprehensive dataset containing temporal data on long-term skin blemish changes. Experiment results show that this framework achieves highly realistic simulations. Furthermore, a visual perception study has also demonstrated the authenticity and quality of the proposed simulation method. Moreover, a user-friendly graphic interface is implemented to manipulate the facial blemishes interactively, achieving realistic and gradual blemishes retouching with an easy access. Master's degree 2024-02-15T02:58:53Z 2024-02-15T02:58:53Z 2023 Thesis-Master by Coursework Shuai, C. (2023). Blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics-based modelling. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173577 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173577 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Computer and Information Science Shuai, Chenhao Blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics-based modelling |
| title | Blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics-based modelling |
| title_full | Blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics-based modelling |
| title_fullStr | Blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics-based modelling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics-based modelling |
| title_short | Blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics-based modelling |
| title_sort | blemishes change simulation for facial image retouching via physics based modelling |
| topic | Computer and Information Science |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/173577 |
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