Digital Face Replacement in Photographs

In this paper, we describe a simple method for digitally replacing an individual’s face in a single photograph with that of another person. Our work focuses on the illumination aspect of face replacement, whereby the lighting conditions across a human face in an arbitrary image are extracted and then applied to a target replacement face. We also describe a method to seamlessly merge this newly lit face into the original photograph. The face replacement images are shown to produce convincing results in many cases, even with large variations in skin tones.