Exemplar-based human facial features cloning

In recent years the spread and easy availability of drug led to drug abuse; consequently drug trafficking gradually increased. In order to enable people to understand how their appearance becomes after having taken drugs, we propose a system on cloning human facial features based on example images. Our goal is to clone the facial features on an example image to a source image without changing the identity of such source image, making source and example image have the same visual effect. In our system, user first provides a source and an example image, and then we use Active Shape Model to distinguish between the skin and facial component areas, keeping only the skin area. Afterward, we apply seamless cloning to blend the facial features on example image to source image, making two images have the same facial features and visually look similar. Additionally, we also propose an automatic selection of a good example image to solve the problem if skin color between the source image and example image differs greatly, making the result image achieve better visual effects.