Patent ID: 7787664
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for producing a composite photo by replacing a face in a first digital image with a face from a second digital image comprising: a. automatically detecting one or more faces in the first digital image; b. identifying at least one target face from the detected faces that needs to be replaced; c. automatically detecting one or more faces in the second digital image; d. identifying at least one source face from the second image detected faces for replacing the target face; e. automatically locating facial features in both the first and second digital images; f. using the located facial features from the target and source faces to perform facial geometry correction using facial features located on the target face and the source face to produce a geometrically corrected source face, and perform appearance correction on the geometrically corrected source face under a plurality of automatically determined parameters to produce a corrected source face; g. replacing the target face with the corrected source face and blending the corrected source face into the first digital image by: h. producing the composite photo from the corrected source face image.