Abstract:
Experts in sports science anticipate substantial training gains that can result from elevated cerebral activity when face-swapping technology is used in videos of athletes to facilitate their motor imagery (Matsumura et al. 2017). In Matsumura et al. (2017), we confirmed that self-recognizability in face-swapping positively influences an individual’s cerebral activity. However, to the best of our knowledge, self-recognizability in face-swapping is yet to be investigated. In this study, we evaluate self-recognizability in face-swapping from the following perspectives: the impact of facial contour compensation on face-swapped videos, the impact of face orientation, and the difference in the face-swapped targets. In our experiment, we use the visual analog scale for subjective evaluation. The experimental results confirm that facial contour compensation helps improve self-recognizability in face-swapping.
