Presentation 2018-01-18
Generating Video of Human Motion Clone from a Still Image using Shape and Color Refinement Networks
Yusuke Miyawaki, Kazuaki Nakamura, Seiko Myojin, Naoko Nitta, Noboru Babaguchi,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we propose a method for generating a video in which a person virtually performs a certain motion that are not performed in the real world. We refer to such motions as {it human motion clone} in this paper. Some existing methods generate a video of human motion clone by the following two steps using a still image called {it target image}, which includes an entire body of the target person, and a {it reference video} in which another person performs the target motion with his/her entire body: First, manipulate the contour of the human region in the target image so that its shape is well matched to that in the reference video. Second, warp the texture of the original target image to the manipulated human region by 2D affine transformations. However, this procedure often yields unnatural results due to inaccurate correspondence between the human contours in the reference video and the target image. Moreover, its texture is sometimes enlarged or reduced too much by misestimated affine transformations. To overcome these problems, the proposed method employs a shape refinement network (SRN), which refines the inaccurate correspondence between the contours, and a color refinement network (CRN), which refines the unsuccessfully warped textures. In our experimental results, distortion of the human contours and the textures appearing in a resultant video is partially improved.
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Keyword(in English) human motion clone / reference video / target image / Shape Refinement Network / Color Refinement Network
Paper # PRMU2017-115,MVE2017-36
Date of Issue 2018-01-11 (PRMU, MVE)

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Committee PRMU / MVE / IPSJ-CVIM
Conference Date 2018/1/18(2days)
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Chair Shinichi Sato(NII) / Yoshinari Kameda(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Vice Chair Hironobu Fujiyoshi(Chubu Univ.) / Yoshihisa Ijiri(Omron) / Kenji Mase(Nagoya Univ.)
Secretary Hironobu Fujiyoshi(AIST) / Yoshihisa Ijiri(NAIST) / Kenji Mase(Kyoto Univ.) / (NTT)
Assistant Masato Ishii(NEC) / Yusuke Sugano(Osaka Univ.) / Takatsugu Hirayama(Nagoya Univ.) / Ryosuke Aoki(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding / Technical Committee on Media Experience and Virtual Environment / Special Interest Group on Computer Vision and Image Media
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Generating Video of Human Motion Clone from a Still Image using Shape and Color Refinement Networks
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Keyword(1) human motion clone
Keyword(2) reference video
Keyword(3) target image
Keyword(4) Shape Refinement Network
Keyword(5) Color Refinement Network
1st Author's Name Yusuke Miyawaki
1st Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kazuaki Nakamura
2nd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Seiko Myojin
3rd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
4th Author's Name Naoko Nitta
4th Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
5th Author's Name Noboru Babaguchi
5th Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
Date 2018-01-18
Paper # PRMU2017-115,MVE2017-36
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) PRMU-391,MVE-392
Page pp.pp.45-50(PRMU), pp.45-50(MVE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-01-11 (PRMU, MVE)