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Computer Scientists Have Created the Most Accurate Digital Model of a Human Face (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit quotes a report from Science Magazine: If you've used the smartphone application Snapchat, you may have turned a photo of yourself into a disco bear or melded your face with someone else's. Now, a group of researchers has created the most advanced technique yet for building 3D facial models on the computer. The system could improve personalized avatars in video games, facial recognition for security, and -- of course -- Snapchat filters. The team also trained its program to turn casual 2D snapshots into accurate 3D models. The method could be used to view what a criminal suspect caught on camera would look like from a different angle, or 20 years older. One could also flesh out and animate historical figures from portraits. The "large scale facial model," or LSFM, may soon have medical applications, too. If someone has lost a nose, the technology could help plastic surgeons determine how a new one should look, given the rest of the face.
The method could be used to view what a criminal suspect caught on camera would look like from a different angle
I am leery of technologies that rely heavily on probability in the legal system. The digital output of this program could make very erroneous assumptions on facial features simply based on historical data that is fed to it. What if the criminal being sought is a very dangerous individual and this system ends up marking an unsuspecting bystander as a target and gets shot and killed amid confusion?
Michael Jackson, pick up the white courtesy phone!
That's what Reddit is for, after all.
What if it helps track down the new Metal Gear?
on LSFM? you know, the one with the false face.
My online fursona is a 6'3" neon blue folf with chiseled abs and 10 inch junk. Putting my own doughy face on that would just be strange.
Maybe Disney can make their next Bambi..ahem Star Wars movie with a rightly scaled Leia head? It could be joined with a rightly scaled Han Solo head in the love scene, stylized the Disney way. And robots, lots of robots with more personality than the humans characters and adorable bobble heads. Just like Disney likes it. And there could be some facial movements as well.
What if the criminal being sought is a very dangerous individual and this system ends up marking an unsuspecting bystander as a target and gets shot and killed amid confusion?
Oh don't be such a Debbie Downer. Christ, thankfully you're not around the kind of creative people who can invent and make things that benefits the rest us, otherwise nothing ever would get made because there's someone like you to point out an idea's downside no matter how unlikely it is to occur.
You're right. Forgive me. What was I thinking considering the ethical implications of implementing an algorithm based system that arbitrarily tags individuals as criminals.
... down by the river in a van.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
That's what Reddit is for, after all.
Reddit is way ahead of you, making 3D sculptures from 2D photos was already on topic four days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/tales...
And this software is somehow going to be WORSE than having police artists take vague descriptions from witnesses and produce terrible sketches?
If the new method is BETTER than what you have now, switch to it. It may not be perfect, but that's not the point. Making step-by-step improvements is.
Does giving my sexbot a human "face" constitute misuse??
You are right! Who would have ever thought that anyone would have used connected devices to defraud, track, and spy on people? One should only look on the bright side of things. Have another wafer thin mint my friend.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
If only someone had a dataset from an online-app to generate new faces.
"Look that NPC looks just like your Ex!"
Zack has immortal words for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSKL_7hn9Hk
From the mouths of (intellectual) babies, as it were.
You can be sure that SOMEONE will find a way to make money out of more human misery from this. It's just human nature, sadly enough.
Fortunately, idiocy and malignancy can still be quickly exposed (so far), but we must be vigilant who we assign as information gatekeepers for our "brave new world"...
Well, there goes the uniqueness of people needed to create new video. We're now in S1MØNE territory.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Combine this with voice emulation ... and we've got ourselves a whole new world of alternative facts!
Lyrebird will offer an API to copy the voice of anyone. It will need as little as one minute of audio recording of a speaker to compute a unique key defining her/his voice. This key will then allow to generate anything from its corresponding voice.
Might makes right irrelevant.
... so if you got photographed at a border crossing 10 years ago, the agencies processing facebook photos will identify who you are in ten years - when you get caught being in the background of someones selfie in the park. Great.
What could possibly be go wrong?
You're right. Forgive me. What was I thinking considering the ethical implications of implementing an algorithm based system that arbitrarily tags individuals as criminals.
Guilty until proven innocent. Screw due process! It was just a fad. :P While you're at it, you might as well give away all your rights away to the plutocrats, since you obviously don't value them anyway. We would have all been better off in ye olden days as slaves of the Pharaoh.
We'll make great pets
What if the criminal being sought is a very dangerous individual and this system ends up marking an unsuspecting bystander as a target and gets shot and killed amid confusion?
What it there is no system in place and this very dangerous individual is allowed to go around killing infidels as he pleases? What if not using this system means not catching an evil genius who later ends up destroying all life on Earth? Anyone can make up hypothetical situations.
Perfect is the enemy of good. If everyone thought like you we wouldn't use fire because "Ogg's fire has no perfect temperature control! What if Ogg hurts finger? Ogg playing God! Fire bad!"
Few pieces of evidence are conclusive on their own, but they can be good leads for further investigation.
Indeed, the ethical implications of such a nonexistent algorithm would be terrible. :-)
Yes, I think there is a snapchat filter for that.
For the first time ever, this comment is insightful.
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