Title
Fast Face Image Synthesis With Minimal Training
Abstract
We propose an algorithm to generate realistic face images of both real and synthetic identities (people who do not exist) with different facial yaw, shape and resolution. The synthesized images can be used to augment datasets to train CNNs or as massive distractor sets for biometric verification experiments without any privacy concerns. Additionally, law enforcement can make use of this technique to train forensic experts to recognize faces. Our method samples face components from a pool of multiple face images of real identities to generate the synthetic texture. Then, a real 3D head model compatible to the generated texture is used to render it under different facial yaw transformations. We perform multiple quantitative experiments to assess the effectiveness of our synthesis procedure in CNN training and its potential use to generate distractor face images. Additionally, we compare our method with popular GAN models in terms of visual quality and execution time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/WACV.2019.00230
2019 IEEE WINTER CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER VISION (WACV)
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
abs/1811.01474
2472-6737
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
35
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sandipan Banerjee1174.52
Walter J. Scheirer277352.81
Kevin W. Bowyer311121734.33
Patrick J. Flynn44405307.04