Title
Moving portraits
Abstract
We present an approach for generating face animations from large image collections of the same person. Such collections, which we call photobios, are remarkable in that they summarize a person's life in photos; the photos sample the appearance of a person over changes in age, pose, facial expression, hairstyle, and other variations. Yet, browsing and exploring photobios is infeasible due to their large volume. By optimizing the quantity and order in which photos are displayed and cross dissolving between them, we can render smooth transitions between face pose (e.g., from frowning to smiling), and create moving portraits from collections of still photos. Used in this context, the cross dissolve produces a very strong motion effect; a key contribution of the paper is to explain this effect and analyze its operating range. We demonstrate results on a variety of datasets including time-lapse photography, personal photo collections, and images of celebrities downloaded from the Internet. Our approach is completely automatic and has been widely deployed as the \"Face Movies\" feature in Google's Picasa.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2647750
Commun. ACM
Keywords
DocType
Volume
three-dimensional graphics and realism
Journal
57
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman171028.03
Eli Shechtman24340177.94
Rahul Garg388485.42
Steven M. Seitz48729495.13