Browsing by Author "Ito, Daichi"

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    Automatic Vector Caricature via Face Parametrization
    (The Eurographics Association, 2023) Madono, Koki; Hold-Geoffroy, Yannick; Li, Yijun; Ito, Daichi; Echevarria, Jose; Smith, Cameron; Chaine, Raphaƫlle; Deng, Zhigang; Kim, Min H.
    Automatic caricature generation is a challenging task that aims to emphasize the subject's facial characteristics while preserving its identity. Due to the complexity of the task, caricatures could exclusively be performed by a trained artist. Recent developments in deep learning have achieved promising results in capturing artistic styles. Despite the success, current methods still struggle to accurately capture the whimsical aspect of caricatures while preserving identity. In this work, we propose Parametric Caricature, the first parametric-based caricature generation that yields vectorized and animatable caricatures. We devise several hundred parameters to encode facial traits, which our method directly predicts instead of estimating the raster caricature like previous methods. To guide the attention of the method, we segment the different parts of the face and retrieve the most similar parts from an artist-made database of caricatures. Our method proposes visually appealing caricatures more adapted to use as avatars than existing methods, as demonstrated by our user study.
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    RGB2AO: Ambient Occlusion Generation from RGB Images
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2020) Inoue, Naoto; Ito, Daichi; Hold-Geoffroy, Yannick; Mai, Long; Price, Brian; Yamasaki, Toshihiko; Panozzo, Daniele and Assarsson, Ulf
    We present RGB2AO, a novel task to generate ambient occlusion (AO) from a single RGB image instead of screen space buffers such as depth and normal. RGB2AO produces a new image filter that creates a non-directional shading effect that darkens enclosed and sheltered areas. RGB2AO aims to enhance two 2D image editing applications: image composition and geometryaware contrast enhancement. We first collect a synthetic dataset consisting of pairs of RGB images and AO maps. Subsequently, we propose a model for RGB2AO by supervised learning of a convolutional neural network (CNN), considering 3D geometry of the input image. Experimental results quantitatively and qualitatively demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.