For their latest project, Dare to Dream, part of the Vodafone Digital Transformation, Ouchhh directed, designed and animated a facial tracking project where visuals, many of them cybernetic and highly colorful, are projection-mapped onto a face in real time.
"The human brain can compensate for this but early software, which could map a static face, really struggled with this.
It builds a lightweight neural network which contains two convolutional layers, a pooling layer and a multilayer perceptron convolutional layer to learn a mapping from face photos to sketches.
In fact, the computer was even able to produce a "heat map" for each name, a face with the features that "betray" a person carrying that name shown in warm colors.
"Take a photograph or texture map and apply it to a face, and then deform it into different facial gestures".
Suh et al. [14] proposed an automatic thumbnail creation based on either a saliency map or the output of a face detector.
Alternatively, one can play with the DualShock 2 or Xbox 360 controller by using four shoulder buttons and a face button, mapped to specific fret keys.
However, employing a variable mapping of face pictures one recent report found preferential detection of own-race faces vs. other-race faces (Lipp et al., 2009).
And for the first time, Google's dominance of digital mapping faces a credible threat: Apple has announced that it will no longer include Google Maps on iPhones or iPads, replacing it with an alternative that, an Apple source told the tech blog All Things D, "will blow your head off".
Projection mapping onto a human face using face tracking technology has been experimented with before, like in this music video, but Omote takes things to the next level by using a living canvas.
