
Imposing expressions on expression-neutral human face images is an interesting application of human-computer-interaction, animation, entertainment and other such fields. The objective of this paper is to impose one of the six prototypic emotional expressions i.e., Joy, Surprise, Disgust, Fear, Anger and Sorrow to a given expression-neutral face image. For this, we first establish individual models for each of the six prototypic expressions. This model is independent of the shape and texture i.e., identity of the subjects in the training video sequences. Given an intensity of a particular expression, we find the changes in the shape and texture due to a particular expression from the derived models. These changes are added to the automatically annotated test image on which the expression is to be imposed. The major contributions of the paper are: (1) Developing a method for finding facial structure specific changes of a subject for imposing a particular expression and (2) Establishing a nonlinear relationship between the expression intensity and the corresponding facial changes. The experimental results show that the proposed method is better compared to another related method. The proposal is also good at preserving the identity of the subject while imposing a given expression on the expression-neutral face image.
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