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has put together and demonstrated a video application that ma..." width="530" height="297" alt="Digital artist Arturo Castro has put together and demonstrated a video application that ma..." border="0"/></a><div class="pic_caption"> <p>Digital artist Arturo Castro has put together and demonstrated a video application that maps the faces of celebrities onto his own, in real time</p> </div> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div class="article_body"> <div id="top_unit"></div> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> <p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p>Some day in the not-too-distant future, you may be on a service like Chatroulette, and suddenly find yourself matched up with a person who looks exactly like Angelina Jolie. Well, chances are it won't really be her. Instead, it will likely be someone using the descendant of a system put together by Arturo Castro. Using a combination of existing software, the Barcelona digital artist has demonstrated how a variety of famous faces can be mapped onto his own, moving with it in real time. While Castro's system isn't likely to fool anyone - in its present version - it's an unsettling indication of what could be possible with just a little more finessing.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250/http://arturocastro.net/" target="_blank">Castro</a>'s application was created using <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250/http://www.openframeworks.cc/" target="_blank">openFrameworks</a>, an open source framework for creative coding. This was combined with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250/http://web.mac.com/jsaragih/FaceTracker/FaceTracker.html" target="_blank">FaceTracker</a>, which produces a virtual mesh that matches a human subject's facial features. The colors of the famous faces were blended with those of Arturo's own using an image clone code developed by artist <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250/http://methodart.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Atkinson</a>. Finally, the FaceTracker meshes were wrapped around his face using the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250/https://github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxFaceTracker" target="_blank">ofxFaceTracker</a> add-on for openFrameworks.</p> <p>The resulting video, which can be seen below, alternates between being funny and just plain creepy, with Castro taking on the identities of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton.</p> <p><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250if_/http://player.vimeo.com/video/29279198?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="500" height="375" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>His collaborator Kyle McDonald, who developed ofxFaceTracker, utilized a different blending algorithm for more lifelike results.</p> <p><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250if_/http://player.vimeo.com/video/29348533?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="500" height="375" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <p>It's not hard to imagine the shenanigans that could result, should more advanced forms of this technology be used for the wrong purposes - is that <em>really</em> your best friend on Skype, asking you for that money? Is that <em>really</em> Mick Jagger telling us how white our sheets can be? The whole thing kind of brings <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFFMRXGjfNI" target="_blank">this fella</a> to mind.</p></body></html></p>  <div id="bottom_unit"> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> </div> </div>  <span class="title">Share</span> <div id="article_share" class="dotsontop"> <span class="as_button"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="gizmag">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> twttr.events.bind('tweet', function(event) { if (event) { var targetUrl; if (event.target && event.target.nodeName == 'IFRAME') { targetUrl = extractParamFromUri(event.target.src, 'url'); } _gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'twitter', 'tweet', targetUrl]); } }); twttr.events.bind('retweet', function(){ var targetUrl; if (event.target && event.target.nodeName == 'IFRAME') { targetUrl = extractParamFromUri(event.target.src, 'url'); } _gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'twitter', 'retweet', targetUrl]); }); function extractParamFromUri(uri, paramName){ if(!uri){ return; } var uri = uri.split('#')[0]; //remove anchor var parts = uri.split('?'); //check for query params if(parts.length == 1){ return; //no params } var query = decodeURI(parts[1]); //find the url param paramName += '='; var params = query.split('&'); for(var i = 0, param; param = params[i]; ++i){ if(param.indexOf(paramName) === 0){ return unescape(param.split('=')[1]); } } } </script> </span> <span class="as_button"><script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250js_/http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=1"></script></span> <span class="as_button"><g:plusone size="medium" count="true" href="http://www.gizmag.com/celebrity-face-substitution-system/19901/"></g:plusone></span> <span class="as_button"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250js_/http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js"></script><script type="in/share" data-counter="right"></script></span> <span class="as_button"><script type="text/javascript">reddit_newwindow='1'</script><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20111007110250js_/http://www.reddit.com/static/button/button1.js"></script></span> <fb:like href="http://www.gizmag.com/celebrity-face-substitution-system/19901/" send="false" width="450" show_faces="false" font="" id="facebook_like"></fb:like><script type="text/javascript">_ga.trackFacebook();</script> </div>   <div id="tags"> <span class="title">Tags</span> <div class="dotsontop"> <ul> <li>» <a href="/web/20111007110250/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/face+detection/" rel="tag">Face Detection</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20111007110250/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/facial/" rel="tag">Facial</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20111007110250/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/identification/" rel="tag">Identification</a></li> <li class="clear_both"></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="bing_unit"></div>  <span class="title" id="comments">User Comments (4)</span> <div class="dotsontop" id="comment_dots">  <div id="comment-81547" class="a_comment"> <p>I hope this software puts overpaid actors out of work. </p> <img src="/web/20111007110250im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Nelson</span> <span class="date">- September 22, 2011 @ 11:06 am PDT</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-81625" class="a_comment"> <p>This has got to be the COOLEST thing I've seen as far as software goes. I WANT ONE!! </p> <img src="/web/20111007110250im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">mharo</span> <span class="date">- September 22, 2011 @ 02:13 pm PDT</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-81667" class="a_comment"> <p>Idea's been around for decades. The usual use in fiction has been to avoid having to get dressed and made-up for remote conferencing by using the avatar of your own face. </p> <p></p> <p>People like to believe that they can believe their eyes--despite the popularity of illusionists who confuse ans astound them regularly. </p> <p></p> <p>What you see is determined by your brain as much as by what is visually preceptable. </p> <p></p> <p>And no, it won't put actors out of work--the person behind the mask STILL has to perform properly through an entire segment or clip. </p> <p></p> <p>Besides, the actor 'Star' system was created to involve the audience in an off-screen fantasy life. </p> <p></p> <p>The hard question is: All identification methods for computers to id people require that the data be converted into a signal--which can be copied & intercepted & used again. How do we know that the 'person' is the one they say they are, despite the id--which may be false? Even DNA tests currently can be defeated physically as well as electronically since the comparison is, like fingerprints and retinal scans and all other bio-metrics, based upon a sub-set of the entire data stream available. </p> <p></p> <p>The best any security system can say is that it can be defeated only by spending more than it cost--which is seldom true, most such systems can be defeated easily (or at least at lower cost) if you find the correct approach. </p> <img src="/web/20111007110250im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Charles Barnard</span> <span class="date">- September 22, 2011 @ 05:04 pm PDT</span> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div id="comment-81706" class="a_comment"> <p>The number one use will be kids masquerading as their parents to get out of 'algebra' tests. </p> <img src="/web/20111007110250im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/comment.png" alt="comment"> <span class="name">Slowburn</span> <span class="date">- 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