David's World

February 12, 2006

When I'm 64.

I am seriously impressed with the abilities of the Facial Transformer, implemented at the Perception Lab (University of St. Andrews, Scotland). The lab looks at features of people's faces as they depend on various factors - such as age, race, but also more subtle determinants such as (perceived) health. I don't know if they manage to acquire models (via machine learning techniques) from many samples, but in in the end, their technology is able to morph a face into another one with different parameters. I am pleased to see that old David doesn't look too shabby.