Dynamic face substitution

January 4, 2012

Topic

Visualization / faces, substitution, video

Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro play around with a face tracker and color interpolation to replace their own faces, in real-time, with celebrities such as that of Brad Pitt and Paris Hilton. Awesome. And creepy.

See Castro’s video of him doing the same thing, but with a different blending algorithm. His looks more like a maleable mask rather than a face substitution.

Grab the code on GitHub.

[Video Link via Waxy]

2 Comments

Mash — January 5, 2012 at 11:28 pm

Can you post a video with you and a tiger face!?
Bassem — January 7, 2012 at 8:53 am

Sincerely Great job! Keep it up, the business potential of this algorithm is tremendous.
I’ll have a look at the code in a bit.

Thank you for sharing!

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