Face transforming and facial recognition

I made the face transformations above at Face Transformer, an online experiment by the Perception Laboratory at the School of Psychology, at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. The rest of the site is worth perusing; topics include facial prototyping, facial aging, facial attractiveness, and perceptual asymmetry.

Thanks to Alex Onsager for the link. Alex is co-author of Graffiti, a new Facebook drawing program. I tried out this app but had problems with it, went back to my old Graffiti program after posting about the bug in Alex's Graffiti discussion board. He responded almost immediately and seems very keen on fixing the program. (Note: Graffiti is being taken offline tonight for feature upgrades, so you probably shouldn't add it to your Facebook profile until tomorrow.) I'm going to give Alex's Graffiti another try later this week.

Google has apparently added some face recognition in its searches, though I don't believe this feature is "official" yet. But try this:

Go to Google images.
Type in a search term.
Go to the browser entry field and append "&imgtype=face" to the search string.
I tried doing this with the term filk, for example, and was floored by how accurately it picked out images featuring faces compared to a general search for the term without the appended text.




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