Image-Based Control of Skin Melanin Texture

Norimichi Tsumura*,**, Toshiya Nakaguchi*, Nobutoshi Ojima***,
Koichi Takase*, Saya Okaguchi*, Kimihiko Hori***, Yoichi Miyake*

*Department of Information and Image Sciences, Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, JAPAN

**PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency
Kawaguchi Center Building, 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi-shi, Saitama, 332-0012, JAPAN

***Kao Corporation
2-1-3 Bunka, Sumida-ku, Tokyo, 131-8501, JAPAN

Applied Optics Doc. ID 64865 (posted 04/04/2006, in press).

Abstract
This paper introduces a useful tool for controlling the skin melanin texture of facial photographs. Controlling the skin melanin texture is an important task in the reproduction of posters, TV commercials, movies, and so on. We used component maps of melanin, which were obtained by our previous method [JOSA A, Vol. 16 No. 9, 2169-2176(1999)] as the first step of processing. We propose to control the melanin texture continuously and physiologically, based on the analysis of 123 skin textures in our database. The physiological validity for the change of the melanin texture is confirmed by comparing the synthesized image with an ultraviolet image, which can predict the change of melanin texture due to aging. The control processes are implemented on programmable graphics hardware, and real-time processing is achieved for a facial video stream.

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