Expressive facial caricature drawing

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to add facial expressions to an expressionless line drawing facial caricature which is drawn using linguistic terms. Questionnaire about the comparison of expressive facial caricatures and expressionless ones is performed in order to obtain essential parameter values and their essential combinations. Expressive facial caricatures are drawn using the essential combinations and the transformation from parameter values in an expressionless face to essential parameter values in an expressive one. Finally some examples of expressive facial caricature drawn by the presented method are shown.