Teaser: Our parametric reshaping technique allows users to easily reshape a human body in a single image (Leftmost) by simply manipulating a small set of sliders corresponding to semantic attributes such as height, weight and waist girth.
Abstract
We present an easy-to-use
image retouching technique for realistic reshaping of human bodies in a
single image. A model-based approach is taken by integrating a 3D
whole-body morphable model into the reshaping process to achieve
globally consistent editing effects. A novel body-aware image warping
approach is introduced to reliably transfer the reshaping effects from
the model to the image, even under moderate fitting errors. Thanks to
the parametric nature of the model, our technique parameterizes the
degree of reshaping by a small set of semantic attributes, such as
weight and height. It allows easy creation of desired reshaping effects
by changing the full-body attributes, while producing visually pleasing
results even for loosely-dressed humans in casual photographs with a
variety of poses and shapes.
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Live Videos of Human Body Retouching
using Photoshop in the Internet
(Middle: Youtube video of artist work)
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(Middle: Youtube video of artist work)
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Snapshots of two popular Youtube videos on reshaping human bodies in single images by artists. Left: Original images. Middle: Artist works. Right: Parametric reshaping results using our technique.
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One of a few highlights from the SIGGRAPH 2010 Technical Papers Program. See details. - Business Wire
Parametric Reshaping is a new technology being introduced at SIGGRAPH 2010 that allows even novice users to easily manipulate a subject's height, weight, and girth interactively while maintaining proportions. See details.
We would like to thank
the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. We thank
Michael Brown for video narration, Nils Hasler for the database of full
body scans, and Li Bao, Ping Shi, and Ruizhen Hu for their help on
experiments. We thank third parties to grant the permission of using
their images: Blanka Matragi (Fig. 1), Daniel Moreno Diaz (Fig. 2 and
3), Erin Vandivier (Fig. 13(c2)), Anna Theodora and Noam Galai (figures
in the accompanying video), and the following flickr users for making
their images available through creative common licenses: Alaskan Dude
(Fig. 4), hqhuyanh (Fig. 10(left)), lululemon athletica (Fig.
10(middle)), D R E A M MERCHANT (Fig. 10(right)), Oleksandr Telesniuk
(Fig. 11(top)), albany tim (Fig. 11(bottom)), mikebaird (Fig. 12), Cesar
Ochoa (Fig. 13(a1)), brookenovak (Fig. 13(a2)), Steve Weaver (Fig.
13(a3)), Art Pets Photography (Fig. 13(b1)), ph-stop (Fig. 13(b2)),
Meltwater (Fig. 13(b3)), Jason Gulledge (Fig. 13(c1)), mikebaird (Fig.
13(c3)), notsogoodphotography (Fig. 13(d1)), ktylerconk (Fig. 13(d2)),
lululemon athletica (Fig. 13(d3)), hqhuyanh (Fig. 13(e1)), and
CarlosMendoza Photo (Fig. 13(e3)). The original image in Figure 13(e2)
is copyrighted to Glenn Francis, www.PacificProDigital.com. Ligang Liu
is supported by the 973 National Key Basic Research Foundation of China
(No. 2009CB320801) and the joint grant of the National Natural Science
Foundation of China and Microsoft Research Asia (No. 60776799). Hongbo
Fu is partly supported by grants from CityU (No. StUp7200148 and
SRG7002533), and the Hong Kong Research Grant Council (No. CityU113610).
Daniel Cohen-Or's research is supported in part by the Israel Science
Foundation founded by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
title = {Parametric Reshaping of Human Bodies in Images},
author = {Shizhe Zhou and Hongbo Fu and Ligang Liu and Daniel Cohen-Or and Xiaoguang Han}
journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH)},
volume = {29},
number = {3},
pages = {Article No. 126, 1-10},
year = {2010}
}
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