Software Technology for Method and apparatus for beautifying face electronic device and storage medium

Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (Beijing, CN)

The invention provides a technique and apparatus for beautifying the appearance of a face. The method may include: extracting a first predetermined number of key points from a face image that has been captured in advance, and expanding the second amount of key points in the current image and extracting each preset key point from a triangulation template with a preset functionality and then extracting the target key point that corresponds to each preset key point in key points made up of the first predetermined number of key points and the second predetermined key points; removing every preset triangulation grid out of the triangulation template based on each preset key point, and constructing an appropriate target triangulation grid to each preset triangulation grid in the current face image based on each key point in the target; and performing beautifying with the preset functionality on the face image currently displayed for each grid of the target triangulation.

Many live and short video applications are used more frequently than ever. Interactive applications for face beautification are a major part of these applications. They include the face shaping process as well as skin whitening and makeup for face.

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