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 ...

Concepts are interrelated to the extent that the characterization of each concept is influenced by the other concepts, and are isolated to the extent that the characterization of one concept is independent of other concepts. The relative categorization accuracy of the prototype and caricature of a concept can be used as a measure of concept interrelatedness. The prototype is the central tendenc...

3D face" S3D can be utilized to generate the 3D facial caricature Q3D as given in the eq. (1). This general idea of We proposed a method of 3D caricature generation 3D caricaturing is shown in Fig. 1. which is based on the automatic extraction of the facial parts for the 3D facial image. This method is likely to suffer sometimes fatal degradations in the feature extraction 81, = &D + b ( L S ~ ...

Caricature Creation In this stage, we create abstract caricatures using all features as disconnected pieces. Using disconnected pieces is partly motivated by cubist sculptures such as Pablo Picasso‘s {Reclining Bather}. Individual pieces also allow faster shape modification. Each unique feature is represented by at least one disconnected 3D surface. Therefore, it is easy to improve 3D recogniza...

Facial caricatures exaggerate the distinctive features of a face and may elevate the recognition of a familiar face. We investigate whether the recognition of facial composites, or pictures of criminal faces, could be similarly enhanced. In this study, participants first estimated the degree of caricature necessary to make composites most identifiable. Contrary to expectation, an anti-caricatur...

This paper proposes an automated method for extracting 39 feature point$ from 3D facial iniage, and shows that 3D facial caricaturing can be realized by such these smaller number of feature point. and that these 39 feature points could be extmcted automatically. As a result, it was clarified by comparing 3D caricature of 3D PICASSO system with that of a famous caricaturist Mr. Yoshida that 3D f...