{"id":106,"date":"2005-01-11T18:58:20","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T22:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/11\/automatic-face-morphing\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T11:10:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T15:10:33","slug":"automatic-face-morphing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/automatic-face-morphing\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic face morphing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an interminable meeting today, I was playing with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk\/~morph\/Transformer\/index.html\">St. Andrews Face Morpher<\/a>, a tool that lets you take an uploaded face image and apply various transform to it for interesting results.<\/p>\n<p>For example, this is an image of my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexwilsonphoto.com\/\">Alex<\/a> that I yanked off his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexwilsonphoto.com\/\">photography site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/01\/alex\/alex_sm.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Normal Alex\" title=\"Normal Alex\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, here is what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk\/~morph\/Transformer\/index.html\">Face Morpher<\/a> says Alex will look like when he is old:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/01\/alex\/oldman_alex.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"252\" alt=\"Old Man Alex\" title=\"Old Man Alex\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is what Alex would look like as a black man:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/01\/alex\/black_alex.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"252\" alt=\"Black Alex\" title=\"Black Alex\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And as an asian:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2005\/01\/alex\/azian_alex.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"252\" alt=\"aZian Alex\" title=\"aZian Alex\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next time I am in a painful meeting I&#8217;ll try going the other way with some black and asian source images and see how the &#8216;whitey&#8217; transform does on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">During an interminable meeting today, I was playing with the St. Andrews Face Morpher, a tool that lets you take an uploaded face image and apply various transform to it for interesting results. For example, this is an image of my friend Alex that I yanked off his photography site: Now, here is what the Face Morpher says Alex will&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/automatic-face-morphing\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-1I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}