Spotlight: Facial Substitution

Post No: 8 

Till date my mind was engraved with an idea that face is my identity, whole life I will have to live with it. 
What if you can change that identity, at least on e-world?
Woooosssshhhh!  mind boggling idea.
But can we really do that?
Just have a look at this interesting experiment. This is a technical demo for face substitution technique. But certainly achievable in near future. 

Today Spotlight is on Kyle McDonald, who is an artist and researcher in New York with a background in computer science and philosophy. In October 2011, he released FaceOSC, a tool for prototyping face-based interaction. FaceOSC was based on the work of Jason Saragih, a research scientist at CSIRO. In addition to FaceOSC, Kyle has produced an addon for working with face tracking in OpenFrameworks as well as a growing body of work that uses face tracking in an artistic context, notably Face Substitution with Arturo Castro.

Keep guessing whats next, but with open mind.
Learn how to unlearn and face the whole new world!

Aspects of human face

6 September 2013
Post No: 4
Human Face >> General Information

There are many other aspects of human face. Most significant are:

1.Tool for living, Biological importance

Face is just an outer surface of head. Biologically, Head is the most significant body part. Skull gives the form and shape to face and thus can be considered as the framework of the face. Skull is casing of brain - integral part of nervous system, eyes - entire visual system, nose - entire olfactorysystem and doorways of respiratory system, ears - entire auditory system, mouth - entire gustatory system.  

2. Tool for communication, Impression and Expression

Human face is the most favored communication tool inseparably associated with his emotions. Facial expression comes from the squashing and stretching of facial muscles which conveys emotions. The facial impression is observed by perception. It is psychological evaluation based on look of personality despite of internal details, thought process. By nature, facial impression may be biased as perception is subjective, synthesis based on personal thoughts and experiences. So sometimes it becomes controversial.

3.Tool for identity, Biometric, tool for identification

We come in this world with a face and everybody recognizes us with that face. Every person continuously refines his own face recognizing methodology and builds and modifies his own database of human faces in memory. Each brain in this world is an independent system. Based on uniqueness of features many biometric philosophies were developed based on retinal identification, ear Pattern and facial structure. Thus face has become premier tool of identification. 

Reading Faces: Face Value

Post: 002

4 September 2013

This article is not about physiognomy but scientific approach to understand human emotions and expressions.

What does a face really tell us about someone's personality?

Professor David Perrett of the Perception Lab at St Andrews University has spent the best part of a decade trying to pin down the essence of facial attractiveness.

Perrett is using the most widely accepted model of human personality: the five-factor model. This consists of:

• Openness to experience - creative, original, independent
• Conscientiousness - careful, hard-working, conscientious
• Extraversion - affectionate, talkative, sociable
• Agreeableness - forgiving, sympathetic, warm
• Neuroticism - nervous, worrying, highly strung

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