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Room 641-A — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:40:02 -0800

Face Stealer App Will Steal Your Ability to Sleep

Yahoo! Japan's FaceStealer app lets you load up images of other people, animals or cartoon characters, and then map them over your face.

By: mazola

mazola — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:46:16 -0800

This is my surprised face. Or is it?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:53:02 -0800

And it's free! (for now)

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:59:56 -0800

Like I told you. What I said.

By: AtDuskGreg

AtDuskGreg — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:03:04 -0800

Seems like a rip-off of Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro's Face Substitution work from more than a year back: Face Substitution on Vimeo.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:04:25 -0800

Next Skype call from the in-laws will be George Jetson answering.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:05:41 -0800

My first attempt.

By: mazola

mazola — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:06:03 -0800

John Travolta and Nicolas Cage could have a blast with this.

By: InsertNiftyNameHere

InsertNiftyNameHere — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:26:07 -0800

ColdChef: "My first attempt." Absolutely hilarious!

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:16:08 -0800

Cc, that is nightmare fuel indeed.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:56:29 -0800

Did somebody say nightmare fuel?

By: davemee

davemee — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:49:26 -0800

AtDuskGreg: which were just OpenFrameworks wrappers around the actual detection algorithm, as far as I'm aware - I don't think anyone's claiming to have come up with the original system, which I'm pretty sure was linked to from here, and I'd provide myself if I wasn't pecking at a smartphone screen. Edit: it's liked from Kyle's Vimeo video there, but has a mac.com address. The OF examples won't compile without this code, which the author had not distributed under an open license, as far as I'm aware.

By: panaceanot

panaceanot — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:44:27 -0800

I just mapped a photo of the pizza I just had delivered. Pizza face!

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:10:57 -0800

This lacks only Lemmy.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:04:46 -0800

Quick, somebody map their own face onto their face.

By: AtDuskGreg

AtDuskGreg — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:10:14 -0800

davemee: McDonald and Castro's Face Substitution used FaceTracker, a library by the researcher Jason Saragih that implements deformable model fitting for face tracking. However, FaceTracker does not provide the face copying and blending technique used in Face Substitution to combine the faces (called Fast Image Cloning which McDonald also implemented based on this SIGGRAPH paper). And, of course, FaceTracker does not provide the aesthetic idea of substituting faces, which Yahoo! app copies exactly from Face Substitution. In the process of their work on Face Subsitution, McDonald made a wrapper for FaceTracker for the creative coding toolkit OpenFrameworks, yes (called ofxFaceTracker). McDonald also convinced Saragih to open source the work and is now the official maintainer of the library: kylemcdonald/FaceTracker (linked directly as such from Saragih's site). That work lead to a profusion of face tracking projects of varying levels of originality and interest. This trend of advertising firms and big companies ripping of creative artists is widespread. Golan Levin gave a great presentation on the topic here: New Media Artists are the Unpaid Research Division of Ad Agencies.

By: Apocryphon

Apocryphon — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:10:44 -0800

I'm pretty sure there's a Shinto or traditional Japanese myth about an oni that goes around stealing faces. At the very least, I read about it in Iron Man.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:49:07 -0800

Clutch Cargo meets Cthulhu. The lucky ones will download first.

By: pashdown

pashdown — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:06:44 -0800

Looks like Yahoo! is in for a turnaround under Marissa Meyer.

By: Apocryphon

Apocryphon — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:10:46 -0800

In the same way that Egypt did under the Black Pharaoh, yes.