Caricature and face recognition

Caricature and face recognition.

Although caricatures are often gross distortions of faces, they frequently appear to be super-portraits capable of eliciting recognition better than veridical depictions. This may occur because faces are encoded as distinctive feature deviations from a prototype. The exaggeration of these deviations in a caricature may enhance recognition because it emphasizes the features of the face that are ...

WebCaricature: a benchmark for caricature face recognition

Caricatures are facial drawings by artists with exaggeration on certain facial parts. The exaggerations are often beyond realism and yet the caricatures are still recognizable by humans. With the advent of deep learning, recognition performances by computers on real-world faces has become comparable to human performance even under unconstrained situations. However, there is still a gap in caric...

A Definition of Caricature and Caricature and Recognition

Sample Based Face Caricature Generation

In this paper we present a system to automatically create a caricature drawing from a frontal face photograph. The system learns how to exaggerate features based on training examples from a particular caricaturist. The input to the system is a frontal face image along with its vector based line-drawing. The system creates a face shape model of the given face with a minimum of user interaction. ...

The Reverse-Caricature Effect Revisited: Familiarization With Frontal Facial Caricatures Improves Veridical Face Recognition.

Prior research suggests that recognition of a person's face can be facilitated by exaggerating the distinctive features of the face during training. We tested if this 'reverse-caricature effect' would be robust to procedural variations that created more difficult learning environments. Specifically, we examined whether the effect would emerge with frontal rather than three-quarter views, after ...