Project 4: Face Morphing

Part 1: Midway Face

I chose myself and my friend Vivek to morph together. We had a similar background in the photo as we had taken the picture together.

Part 2: Morphing

Now, instead of simply taking the midway, I did it across a parameter t that ranged from 0 to 1 and created 46 frames, where the start and end are the 2 original images that I had.

Part 3: Mean Face of Population

I used the FEI dataset. Specifically, 100 faces of Brazillians. To calculate the mean face, I first found the average among all the face points, and then morphed each individual Brazillian into that face shape and averaged the resulting image.

Part 4: Caricatures

To make a caricature, I simply go in the opposite direction of morphing into the Brazilian mean face. This will accentuate certain features that are unique to me.

Part 5: (Bells & Whistles) Nick Becomes a Female Chinese Celebrity

I wanted to see what I would look like if I became a female Chinese celebrity. I found the mean face of female Chinese celebrities and morphed my face into that to see what would happen.

As a bonus, because the image happened to be there, I also morphed myself into a male Chinese celebrity, to see what features I was missing in order to have good looks. It turns out my face is not as long and my nose is a little wider. Almost there!