New approach on Smiling faces with Domain Transfer in Latent Space

Felix Ming-Fei Duan, Wan-Chi Siu, Chun Chuen Hui

Abstract: Sometimes we do not satisfy with our own old photo without smiling. Do you want to make it smile? One possible approach traditionally is to make use of the manipulation technique in latent space to achieve this. However, often we find that this may produce some errors. In this paper, we propose a new smile manipulation approach using Domain Transfer in Latent Space (DTLS) approach. We define various degrees of smile as a series of domains transfer in the DTLS. Results of the experimental work show that with this of our approach, manipulated photos show less errors compared with traditional methods, and the visual quality of our manipulated photos is good.