Methods and systems for transferring hair characteristics from a reference image to a digital image

A non-transitory computer-readable media having stored therein executable instructions, which when executed by a system including one or more processors causes the system to perform functions comprising:

• receiving an original digital image including a face area of a first subject and a background area;
• receiving a reference image of a second subject;
• modifying the original digital image based on the reference image utilizing a generative neural network to create a modified original digital image in which a feature of the second subject is transferred to the first subject;
• extracting a feature area from the modified original digital image including a portion of the modified original digital image with the feature of the second subject transferred to the first subject, and extracting the face area of the first subject and the background area from the original digital image;
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• replacing a portion of modified face and background areas of the modified original digital image with the face area of the first subject and the background area from the original digital image to create a composite modified digital image that includes (i) data representing the feature of the second subject transferred to the first subject as extracted from the modified original digital image and (ii) data representing the face area of the first subject and the background area as extracted from the original digital image.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors and non-transitory computer-readable media having stored therein instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, causes the system to perform functions comprising:
• receiving an original digital image including a face area of a first subject and a background area;
• receiving a reference image of a second subject;
• modifying the original digital image based on the reference image utilizing a generative neural network to create a modified original digital image in which a feature of the second subject is transferred to the first subject;
• extracting a feature area from the modified original digital image including a portion of the modified original digital image with the feature of the second subject transferred to the first subject, and extracting the face area of the first subject and the background area from the original digital image;
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• replacing a portion of modified face and background areas of the modified original digital image with the face area of the first subject and the background area from the original digital image to create a composite modified digital image that includes (i) data representing the feature of the second subject transferred to the first subject as extracted from the modified original digital image and (ii) data representing the face area of the first subject and the background area as extracted from the original digital image.