Automatic Digital Avatar Generation

"In this paper, we utilize face recognition and pattern matching techniques to automatically generate digital avatar from the given photo. At the preprocessing step, we recognize the face in the photo and identify the feature points of its face-units such as eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouse. Then, for each face-unit, the feature values calculated by its feature points are applied as the input for pattern matching. Experiments show that our generated digital avatars are similar to the given photos. These avatars can be successfully applied as participating characters in certain games."