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Cross-Domain Style Mixing for Face Cartoonization (arxiv.org)
11 points by lnyan on May 30, 2022 | hide | past | pdf | 1 comment on HN

In plain words: The system blends a real face's code with a cartoon code inside one generator to turn photos into cartoons. Unlike the earlier layer-swapping trick, it handles many cartoon characters, from simple to highly abstract, using one generator and few training images.

Abstract

Cartoon domain has recently gained increasing popularity. Previous studies have attempted quality portrait stylization into the cartoon domain; however, this poses a great challenge since they have not properly addressed the critical constraints, such as requiring a large number of training images or the lack of support for abstract cartoon faces. Recently, a layer swapping method has been used for stylization requiring only a limited number of training images; however, its use cases are still narrow as it inherits the remaining issues. In this paper, we propose a novel method called Cross-domain Style mixing, which combines two latent codes from two different domains. Our method effectively stylizes faces into multiple cartoon characters at various face abstraction levels using only a single generator without even using a large number of training images.

Seungkwon Kim, Chaeheon Gwak, Dohyun Kim, Kwangho Lee, Jihye Back, Namhyuk Ahn, Daesik Kim
arXiv:2205.12450 · cs.CV · submitted May 25, 2022
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Those are pretty good results, although backgrounds end up suffering a lot from the passes.