Today I showed a demo to some high-level officers of Lucasfilm. I demoed my makeup work which was published in CVPR 09.
The code stays untouched from the time I submitted my paper, until recently my boss asked my to build GUI for the demo to Lucasfilm visitors. I picked up my code and rushed to finish the demo. At last, I included three parts of my work, beauty makeup, makeup from painting, and wrinkles transfer. Because beard transferring part needs manual mark-up of beard region, I didn’t have time to include it as well.
After introduction of each other, I invited one of the visitors, a lady, to take a photo. Then I did the makeup with my program on her face photo.
“Have you ever tried such a heavy makeup before?” I pointed at the makeup example on the screen and asked her.
“No.” She replied.
“Today you can have a try. If you like it, you can do it physically; if not, never mind, it’s all virtual.” I added.
When the makeup result showed up, it was great! It was natural and seamless, as if it is real. However, this lady seemed not to like it because she had never worn such a heavy makeup. Nevertheless, the result itself was successful !
Later on, I begun the second step, adding wrinkles.
“Can you remove the wrinkles on my faces?” One gentlemen asked me.
At that moment, I just realised he was a bit elder than the rest and had some wrinkles on his face.
“All right. But it’s better to show adding wrinkles.” I replied.
At last, the a bad thing I did – adding wrinkles to the lady’s face.
There were deep dimples on her face, so the wrinkles were so obvious. Yet, still the wrinkles looked real.
Next part is makeup from a painting. I transferred a makeup from a famous painting of Marilyn Monroe. This time, she gotta like it.
I don’t show the results of the visitor’s faces here due to privacy.
If interested, you can visit this site regarding to my Digital Face Makeup by Example:
http://digitalfacemakeup.com
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