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Neural Puppet: Generative Layered Cartoon Characters

Vladimir KimOmid Poursaeed Eli Shechtman Serge BelongieJun Saito

MotivationGenerating motion in image / video is difficult

Controllable Video Generation, Hao et al., CVPR 2018MoCoGAN, Tulyakov et al., CVPR 2018

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Main IdeaUsing an underlying mesh representation for deformation / interpolation

Image

Mesh

DeformationDifferentiable

Rendering

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Main IdeaAdvantages:

● Well-defined regularization energies on meshes

● Working in the lower dimensional space of vertex positions

● Alleviating blurry outputs

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Template Mesh

Architecture

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Architecture

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Results

Rendered (Ours)

Generated (Ours)

Input

PWC-Net (Baseline)

DAE (Baseline)

Train Test Train Test

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Results

Rendered (Ours)

Generated (Ours)

Input

PWC-Net (Baseline)

DAE (Baseline)

Train Test Train Test

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Results

Average L2 distance to ground truth

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Interpolation between posesLinearly interpolating between encoded latent vectors

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User-constrained DeformationThe user specifies a desired location for a point on the character

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Applications: Face manipulation

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