Human character cartoon image generating method and apparatus

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method and a device for generating a cartoonlike figure image. The method for generating the cartoon figure image comprises the following steps: a figure image is acquired; a facial feature point set is obtained by processing the acquired figure image; a facial component cartoon template is selected according to the shape of the facial feature point set; the cartoonlike figure image is generated by assembling the chosen facial component cartoon template according to the relative position of the facial feature point set; the facial feature point set comprises a facial organ feature point set and / or a facial outline point set; and the facial component cartoon template comprises a facial organ template and / or a facial shape template. As the technical scheme provided by the invention makes full use of facial feature information in the figure image, the generated cartoonlike image can better reflect facial features of the figure. Moreover, the invention can effectively avoid facial position disproportion and facial feature disproportion.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of image processing, in particular to a method and device for generating a character caricature image. Background technique [0002] Character cartoons depict characters in a simple and exaggerated way. While embodying the main characteristics of the characters, they also achieve effects such as humor and satire. As a drawing art form, comics often need to be drawn by hand by professionals. In recent years, with the development of image processing technology, we have been able to use computers to automatically generate caricature images of characters. [0003] In the prior art, a method for generating a caricature image of a character is to apply face recognition technology to extract the facial feature profile of the character from a photo of the character, and obtain the caricature image of the character through linear exaggeration of the facial feature profile. Its main steps are as follows: [0004] 1...

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[0007] In real life, the facial features of each person vary greatly, and the above method is based on the average face, and the overall linear exaggeration of the face shape and various organs is performed, so that the generated caricature images often cannot reflect the original facial features of the characters, and the situation is serious. Sometimes, it will even cause the facial position and proportion to be out of balance, thus losing the original meaning of the manga

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