As someone who takes many photographs of random people in nightclubs and at events, I’m intrigued by the efforts of Columbia University’s team to write software that performs automated face replacement in digital photographs.
The software is able to replace faces within images from a database of candidate images drawn from the Internet and other sources, [...]
At yesterday’s SFBETA meetup, I had the chance to play with PicLens, a dynamic system for displaying images in your browser, all pulled from the APIs of various web sites.
It works as an adjunct to your existing browser, installing as a plugin (written in C++, or so the developer tells me.)
If you connect to a [...]
