Project 5: Face Morphing
cs195-g: Computational Photography Patrick Doran
Spring 2010 pdoran
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General Comments

This algorithm works fairly well at morphing once face to another. It fails most egregiously the two faces are facing opposite directions or have entirely different scales. In my results, all images have been scaled to be 300x400, so most faces are distorted. Also, the images chosen represent the results of transition from color to black and white as well as from painting to photograph. The results for those are quite interesting.

Results
I also chose to create a 60 frame transition for each of the presidents to their successor and put them in a jpeg sequence (to be animated). The result is shown below.

The "Mean" President
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Bells and Whistles

Caricatures are by performing face morphs to target caricature points. These points are: Image Pts + Scale*(Image Pts-Mean Pts). As you can see, since none of the presidents were very well aligned to begin with, the results look crazy and often squished up against the sides of the image. The modern photos actually worked the least poorly.

The 44 US Presidents