Caricature: Fun, art and scientific contribution

A Definition of Caricature and Caricature and Recognition

Caricature and face recognition.

Although caricatures are often gross distortions of faces, they frequently appear to be super-portraits capable of eliciting recognition better than veridical depictions. This may occur because faces are encoded as distinctive feature deviations from a prototype. The exaggeration of these deviations in a caricature may enhance recognition because it emphasizes the features of the face that are ...

Creature Double Feature: On Style and Subject in the Art of Caricature

A caricature is a distinctive drawing in which the essence of a subject is rendered in the style of an artist. The question is: How do artists make distinctive drawings and how do viewers see subject and style? Here I explore this question in a series of three investigations on contour drawings of animal silhouettes. First, I present a descriptive study of how different artists (styles) create ...

I-31: The Scientific Underpinning of ART in Unexplained Infertility

Although intra uterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) are widely accepted treatments among doctors and patients and practiced on large scale, it is good to realize that they have rarely been evaluated properly in randomized clinical trials or even in comparative cohort studies. Although the first pregnancy after IUI was established in 1884, it was not until 2008 that the fi...

Caricature video

We make moving caricatures from videos on human faces. Using training images, we created a 3D model of an average face. This allows us to transform the image in each frame of an input video, so that it is seen from the front. Then we apply 2D exaggeration rules to caricature each face. Finally, we rotate the face in each frame back to its original position. A panel of viewers gave positive scor...