I was wondering how this is done:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

That sure is slick.  Anybody know anything about
the algorithms?

I'm thinking also about those 'aging' programs -
where a youth gets morphed into his older self.
I have no idea how to tackle that, but I
suspect it's similar...

--
Rich

RichD wrote:
> I was wondering how this is done:
> 
> http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
> 
> That sure is slick.  Anybody know anything about
> the algorithms?
> 
> I'm thinking also about those 'aging' programs -
> where a youth gets morphed into his older self.
> I have no idea how to tackle that, but I
> suspect it's similar...
> 
> --
> Rich
> 


Basic concept: match pixels in two images by location, and for each pair 
compute an average, that will be the midpoint in morphing. Repeat with 
the midpoint and one image, then midpoint and the other. Calculate 
midpoints of smaller and smaller intervals until you have enough 
intermediates to produce the illusion of morphing when played back in 
sequence. The same general procedure is used to create CGI animation, BTW.

For "aging" the image of a person, you start by using a series of 
pictures that show actual aging. From these, you derive rules about 
changes in proportions, roundness, skin texture, etc, and use those to 
create an aging algorithm, which you test by applying it to the images 
you started with. Eventually, after sufficient tweaking, you use these 
algorithms to create aging programs. You can use the morphing algorithm 
to create a morphing illusion, if you like.

NB that an aged image is at best a "pretty good guess", since factors 
such as makeup, expression, facial hair etc are not known. But options 
can be built into in the program to produce alternatives images.

HTH

-- 
wolf k.

On Jul 24, 8:51=A0am, Wolf Kirchmeir <wolf...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> RichD wrote:
> > I was wondering how this is done:
>
> >http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnUDIoN-_Hxs
>
> > That sure is slick. =A0Anybody know anything about
> > the algorithms?
>
> > I'm thinking also about those 'aging' programs -
> > where a youth gets morphed into his older self.
> > I have no idea how to tackle that, but I
> > suspect it's similar...
>
> > --
> > Rich
>
> Basic concept: match pixels in two images by location, and for each pair
> compute an average, that will be the midpoint in morphing. Repeat with
> the midpoint and one image, then midpoint and the other. Calculate
> midpoints of smaller and smaller intervals until you have enough
> intermediates to produce the illusion of morphing when played back in
> sequence. The same general procedure is used to create CGI animation, BTW=
..
>
> For "aging" the image of a person, you start by using a series of
> pictures that show actual aging. From these, you derive rules about
> changes in proportions, roundness, skin texture, etc, and use those to
> create an aging algorithm, which you test by applying it to the images
> you started with. Eventually, after sufficient tweaking, you use these
> algorithms to create aging programs. You can use the morphing algorithm
> to create a morphing illusion, if you like.
>
> NB that an aged image is at best a "pretty good guess", since factors
> such as makeup, expression, facial hair etc are not known. But options
> can be built into in the program to produce alternatives images.
>
> HTH
>


And now for the fun part. Name the artists [if not the pictures and
the ladies themselves]. At least 5 Leonardos, 1 Botticelli, 1 Raphael,
1 Rubens, 1 Renoir, 1 Rembrandt, 1 Picasso. Probably a Klimt. Maybe a
Schiele. Then blank. First thing to go IS your memory. Ratz.

On Jul 24, 11:19=A0am, RichD <r_delaney2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was wondering how this is done:
>
> http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnUDIoN-_Hxs
>
> That sure is slick. =A0Anybody know anything about
> the algorithms?
>
> I'm thinking also about those 'aging' programs -
> where a youth gets morphed into his older self.
> I have no idea how to tackle that, but I
> suspect it's similar...
>
> --
> Rich

Hi,

it might be interesting for you to read this paper:
http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/courses/15-463/2004_fall/www/Papers/beier-neely.=
pdf.
It is very old, but the core idea is always more or less the same. The
difference is usually how the correspondence is specified - e.g.,
grid, corresponding line segments, etc.

Jindra

"feedbackdroid" <feedbackdroid@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:1a7cd48a-22f4-4bca-b8b9-e5927099f11e@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
On Jul 24, 8:51 am, Wolf Kirchmeir <wolf...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> RichD wrote:
> > I was wondering how this is done:
>
> >http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
>
> > That sure is slick. Anybody know anything about
> > the algorithms?
>
> > I'm thinking also about those 'aging' programs -
> > where a youth gets morphed into his older self.
> > I have no idea how to tackle that, but I
> > suspect it's similar...
>
> > --
> > Rich
>
> Basic concept: match pixels in two images by location, and for each pair
> compute an average, that will be the midpoint in morphing. Repeat with
> the midpoint and one image, then midpoint and the other. Calculate
> midpoints of smaller and smaller intervals until you have enough
> intermediates to produce the illusion of morphing when played back in
> sequence. The same general procedure is used to create CGI animation, BTW.
>
> For "aging" the image of a person, you start by using a series of
> pictures that show actual aging. From these, you derive rules about
> changes in proportions, roundness, skin texture, etc, and use those to
> create an aging algorithm, which you test by applying it to the images
> you started with. Eventually, after sufficient tweaking, you use these
> algorithms to create aging programs. You can use the morphing algorithm
> to create a morphing illusion, if you like.
>
> NB that an aged image is at best a "pretty good guess", since factors
> such as makeup, expression, facial hair etc are not known. But options
> can be built into in the program to produce alternatives images.

And now for the fun part. Name the artists [if not the pictures and
the ladies themselves]. At least 5 Leonardos, 1 Botticelli, 1 Raphael,
1 Rubens, 1 Renoir, 1 Rembrandt, 1 Picasso. Probably a Klimt. Maybe a
Schiele. Then blank. First thing to go IS your memory. Ratz.

-----

Second thing to go is your memory.  I don't remember the first thing. 

In article <02b9287f-37d5-4ff5-9d1e-7376d3cbf201@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
RichD  <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I was wondering how this is done:
>
>http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
>
>That sure is slick.  Anybody know anything about
>the algorithms?
>
>I'm thinking also about those 'aging' programs -
>where a youth gets morphed into his older self.
>I have no idea how to tackle that, but I
>suspect it's similar...
>
>--
>Rich
>

Question: where's the video of the very FIRST (popular, widely
viewed in the graphics community) one of those -- the one with
the (very) pretty girls getting morphed into, I maybe recall, boys?

It some wildish music, and the scenes went by pretty fast,
lots of different morphs -- all of (young) people.

Long time no see.


Thanks

David

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 07:34:50 +0000 (UTC), dkcombs@panix.com (David
Combs) wrote:

>In article <02b9287f-37d5-4ff5-9d1e-7376d3cbf201@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
>RichD  <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>I was wondering how this is done:
>>
>>http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
>>
>>That sure is slick.  Anybody know anything about
>>the algorithms?



A lot of those transitions look like some morph and some fading
between pictures.... Not ALL morphing.
Just an observation...

boB



>>
>>I'm thinking also about those 'aging' programs -
>>where a youth gets morphed into his older self.
>>I have no idea how to tackle that, but I
>>suspect it's similar...
>>
>>--
>>Rich
>>
>
>Question: where's the video of the very FIRST (popular, widely
>viewed in the graphics community) one of those -- the one with
>the (very) pretty girls getting morphed into, I maybe recall, boys?
>
>It some wildish music, and the scenes went by pretty fast,
>lots of different morphs -- all of (young) people.
>
>Long time no see.
>
>
>Thanks
>
>David
>