3D Face Match and Morph from a Photograph
by Steve Flowers · 04/13/2007 (5:18 am) · 17 comments
For the 3D folks out there as well as the programmer types. I'm not sure I believe what I'm seeing in this video. Pretty amazing stuff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA
The video demonstrates a system where a generic mesh is positioned atop a still image. The software runs some auto-matching algorithms and conforms the mesh to the 'contours' of the face in the photograph. It then samples the textures, seems to apply another displacement map for details.
The end result is a 3D mesh of the face that can be morphed through preset targets. In the video, Tom Hanks (from Forrest Gump) puts on an extra hundred pounds or so.
Technology is moving so fast, makes me wonder where we will be in a couple of years. Too bad it can't seem to solve real global problems. At least we'll have good entertainment (movies, console / PC games, art) when we are tearing each other to shreds over politics, religion, and money:) Maybe the creative people should be given the keys to the planet...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA
The video demonstrates a system where a generic mesh is positioned atop a still image. The software runs some auto-matching algorithms and conforms the mesh to the 'contours' of the face in the photograph. It then samples the textures, seems to apply another displacement map for details.
The end result is a 3D mesh of the face that can be morphed through preset targets. In the video, Tom Hanks (from Forrest Gump) puts on an extra hundred pounds or so.
Technology is moving so fast, makes me wonder where we will be in a couple of years. Too bad it can't seem to solve real global problems. At least we'll have good entertainment (movies, console / PC games, art) when we are tearing each other to shreds over politics, religion, and money:) Maybe the creative people should be given the keys to the planet...
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#2
04/13/2007 (6:25 am)
That was pretty damn impressive 
#3
04/13/2007 (6:40 am)
Wow...amazing stuff. I'm all for giving the creative people the keys to the world...that or:Quote:
"Have the wars fought only by the assholes who start them. . ."
#5
04/13/2007 (7:22 am)
That is insane!
#6
04/13/2007 (7:48 am)
Facegen is cool, played with it awhile ago. Not anywhere near as sophisticated as this seems though.
#7
04/13/2007 (7:54 am)
that video was pretty insane, have to wonder when technology that nice will be cheap though 
#8
04/13/2007 (8:02 am)
Incredible. Good thing video is not admissable in court :)
#9
04/13/2007 (10:15 am)
Wow. That was a fun video to watch. Thanks for posting.
#10
04/13/2007 (10:54 am)
That's insane!
#11
04/13/2007 (12:50 pm)
The first half of the video just seemed like a variation on traditional morphing but how they were applying it was stunning. Add this to a system like Face Robot and you'd have an amazing tool. They try to do something similar in Poser but the technology is radically different. Poser is pretty clunky to use. Curious how far away a commercial application is? 
#12
04/13/2007 (3:37 pm)
Fantastic, that is really very cool. 
#14
04/13/2007 (7:50 pm)
I'm both amazed and concerned. wow... 
#15
04/14/2007 (11:14 am)
This is awesome! Just one step away (voice) from bringing dead people back to life. Imagine using this to study ancient people just from a picture or sculpture. Very, very, cool! 
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