Example-Based Synthesis of Stylized Facial Animations

approach to example-based stylization of portrait videos that preserves both the subject’s identity and the visual richness of the input style exemplar. Unlike the current state-of-the-art based on neural style transfer, the method performs non-parametric texture synthesis that retains more of the local textural details of the artistic exemplar and does not suffer from image warping artifacts caused by aligning the style exemplar with the target face. The method allows the creation of videos with less than full temporal coherence, By introducing a controllable amount of temporal dynamics, it more closely approximates the appearance of real hand-painted animation in which every frame was created independently. The demonstration of the practical utility of the proposed solution on a variety of style exemplars and target videos.