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Çin'den Realistik Robot: Jia Jia

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Perspective-aware Manipulation of Portrait Photos

Research from University of Princeton Department of Computer Science demonstrating method to alter portrait selfies as distant camera shots through computation to improve appearance of subject:

This paper introduces a method to modify the apparent relative pose and distance between camera and subject given a single portrait photo. Our approach fits a full perspective camera and a parametric 3D head model to the portrait, and then builds a 2D warp in the image plane to approximate the effect of a desired change in 3D. We show that this model is capable of correcting objectionable artifacts such as the large noses sometimes seen in “selfies,” or to deliberately bring a distant camera closer to the subject. This framework can also be used to re-pose the subject, as well as to create stereo pairs from an input portrait. We show convincing results on both an existing dataset as well as a new dataset we captured to validate our method.

The official website for the project can be found here

A website of interactive demonstrations of results can be found here

A Facebook exec says she is building a machine to give us all ESP

Mary Lou Jepsen is working on something big. The head of engineering of Facebook’s Oculus technology, Jepson is leaving the company to work on a device that could eventually allow people to communicate via thought. Her plan is to take magnetic resonance technology and fit it into a hat

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