Comments for "3D morphable model face animation" Video at VideoSift.com

By maudlin

maudlin (http://maudlin.videosift.com) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:42:52 -0800

A sample of my reactions as the video played:

That's interesting.

Wow.

Holy shit!

Oh, my God.

This is one of the most amazing things I've seen for a long time.

This is obviously still preliminary work. It looks great as a series of static images, although some of those facial expressions didn't quite work, bringing the faces back to the Uncanny Valley. Animating those revised faces is going to be an immense challenge, but this is still an awesome start.

By cybrbeast

cybrbeast (http://www.videosift.com/member/cybrbeast) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:57:48 -0800

This is pretty amazing indeed. But one starts to wonder how this could be applied to video manipulation and make all kinds of convincing fake videos. This could be used for scary results like framing people etc.
On the other hand it could also be used for a lot of fun things like creating a very convincing avatar of yourself. Or populating games with characters that are all unique and randomly generated.
Though like maudlin said the expressions weren't convincing enough yet.

By BicycleRepairMan

BicycleRepairMan (http://www.videosift.com/member/BicycleRepairMan) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:29:21 -0800

Seriously throughout this video I was all like "please, please,please do mona lisa", and suddenly the painting appear!! its surely part of the da-vinci code conspiracy, guess I'll have to read the book now..

By rickegee

rickegee (http://www.videosift.com/member/rickegee) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:54:39 -0800

oh yeah . . . this one is going straight to #1.

By leeweek

leeweek (http://www.videosift.com/member/leeweek) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:19:25 -0800

i did it again!

By LadyBug

LadyBug (http://ladybug.videosift.com) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:54:59 -0800

they could have at least made her smile ... was that too much to ask!?!?!

By leeweek

leeweek (http://www.videosift.com/member/leeweek) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:27:06 -0800

they did!, wait whos "her" mona-lisa? or the B&W pic?

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:22:54 -0800

fantastic

I like that Hepburn pic

By LadyBug

LadyBug (http://ladybug.videosift.com) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:29:40 -0800

lol .... yeah! moaning lisa (as my 8 yr old refers to her as (from the simpson episode of said name)) ... i was waiting to see a nice big smile!!

By pragmatick

pragmatick (http://www.videosift.com/member/pragmatick) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:27:28 -0800

Woah fantastic, I study in the town where this was developed. Impressive. It's about 500 meters from where I live. Nice to know.

By Semiapies

Semiapies (http://www.videosift.com/member/Semiapies) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:25:52 -0800

Up until the halfway point, I was thinking, "OK, so like twiddling morph dials on a Poser model, but with a much better dataset..." And then, yeah, wow.

By Baqueta

Baqueta (http://www.videosift.com/member/Baqueta) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:15:02 -0800

On the one hand, I find this to be quite scary stuff. As Cyberbeast says, it's a big step toward making video evidence easy to fake.

On the other hand, making video evidence easy to fake would be a big step toward making CCTV redundant. I like that thought.

By plastiquemonkey

plastiquemonkey (http://plastiquemonkey.videosift.com) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:59:14 -0800

the last time a video went #1 here in 24 hours was the dove evolution ad, another computer-altered face...

By k8_fan

k8_fan (http://www.videosift.com/member/k8_fan) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:39:51 -0800

Anyone remember the film "The Running Man"? It featured the faked death of a pair of characters via real-time "face mapping". This is about 2 or 3 years of additional development from that.

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:36:45 -0800

....guess what...You are all busted, the next time you see a viddie from a robbery at a store-BOOM!

That sketch artist better cash in on his/her pension-
oh, and when you can charge, the combination of this, and plastic surgery, on the AMEX, awww shit!

By yaroslavvb

yaroslavvb (http://www.videosift.com/member/yaroslavvb) — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:13:29 -0800

Here's some technical math info on how such morphings can be generated automatically, from another guy in the same department
http://nips2005.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/slides/schoelkopf05.ppt

By spoco2

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:35:24 -0800

I put off looking at this vid for ages due to the frame that shows... I thought it was going to be a retread of the poor work in Forrest Gump in changing faces on archival footage... and to begin with I was still thinking not much of it.

But yeah... MAN that's super sweet... just amazing.

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:40:17 -0800

I've learned to trust the Top 15 list, no matter how bad the thumbnail looks. Take the current (or any) #1 for example.

By karaidl

karaidl (http://www.videosift.com/member/karaidl) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:54:26 -0700

*promote

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:54:33 -0700

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Thursday 4th January 2007 (promotion called by gold star member karaidl)

By cheesemoo

cheesemoo (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheesemoo) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:09:48 -0700

Amazing!

By oxdottir

oxdottir (http://www.videosift.com/member/oxdottir) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:28:10 -0700

*engineering

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:28:12 -0700

Adding video to channels (Engineering) - requested by oxdottir.