Face Substitution from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.
Well, I’m officially freaked out!
Using programs and plug-ins on opensource platform Openframeworks, Kyle McDonald (in the above video), Arturo Castro and Kevin Atkinson (source) have developed a way of layering faces from images, onto your face on the feed of a webcam.
This delivers some surprisingly well meshed “masks” and while some are just downright creepy (Michael Jackson!) the ability to alter the face so well, with the tracking of facial expressions and a mouth opening, is extremely impressive. It seems like only yesterday that I was amazed by the Transformers AR face tracking but it goes to show how quickly this technology is developing.
Applications for this are really not difficult to think of, the first that springs to my mind being gaming. Developments like the Kinect Avatar, have been designed to make you feel like you are in the game, although this would be perfect for making you more like the hero in the game, something that would be much more applicable in FPS games (don’t think shooting the faces of real people is that acceptable right now!).
Thanks to Duncan Child for the share
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