Impressed partly by individuals who take pictures of themselves every single day, showing how they change over a period of time, computer science researchers from the College of Washington have provide you with technology that automatically creates time-lapse portraits from a big assortment of images.
If it sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of their analysis supplied the premise for the Face Movie function in Google’s Picasa picture enhancing and administration program.
The “Photobios” analysis will probably be introduced subsequent week on the annual assembly of SIGGRAPH, the Particular Curiosity Group on Graphics and Interactive Methods, in Vancouver, B.C. Learn their full paper here.
Google, Microsoft, Adobe and the Nationwide Science Basis funded the analysis.
So what’s subsequent? UW researcher Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and professor Steve Seitz (who can also be an engineer at Google Seattle) are engaged on a associated project that turns a group of images right into a 3D mannequin of the face.
Extra background in this UW news article.
