Just Change's You.

Cute with hot new application you can discuses during a Skype session with Co.Design. Handy well for famous people to look different for a girl look more attractive on A 3 mp camera with a click feel uncompromising.  If you have ever wanted to pout like Kim Kardashian or to make a speech in the style of Barack Obama, a new app lets you try on their faces so you can do a convincing impression. 


An open-source Javascript project lets people sitting in front of a web cam 're-skin' their face as someone more famous, including Audrey Hepburn and Queen Elizabeth II. Users can pull faces in front of a camera and see themselves react as their favourite celebrity in an effect that is almost like digital plastic surgery. An open-source Javascript project lets people sitting in front of a web cam re-skin their face (demo pictured left) as someone more famous, including Kim Kardashian (pictured right) here with a click you can look like Obama or Kim Kardashian? There's an APP for that: Software lets you try on famous faces and even talk through them Open-source software lets people sitting in front of a web cam 're-skin' their face as someone more famous. Demo includes features of George Clooney, Queen Elizabeth II, Kim Kardashian, Barack Obama, Audrey Hepburn and the Terminator. Users need a web cam to 'wear' a celebrity face in real time.

To make use of Co.Design the open-source Javascript project a user must sit in front of a web cam. They can choose which celebrity's face they would like to wear as a mask. An algorithm picks out 70 points on their face and the superimposes the famous face on top of theirs so that the points match up. A person can change their expression and pull faces as a celebrity. Norwegian computer scientist Audun Øygard created so that a web cam can map 70 distinct points on a person’s face and then put someone else’s facial features on top of them in a web browser. The technology works in real time so that the celebrity mask mirrors a user’s facial expressions. Mr Øygard told book club ‘It's a really eerie effect to “wear” someone else's face when you're mostly used to seeing your own face in the mirror. Saying to book club‘I noticed that I subconsciously changed my facial expressions depending on which face I was “wearing,” which was kind of funny. ’The technology works in real time so that the celebrity mask mirrors a user’s facial expressions. 

Here, President Obama's features are super imposed on a user's face.Mr Øygard was inspired to create his software, having seen the work of Kyle McDonalds, who also made an app to enable 'facial substitution'. Here, a user pouts as Paris Hilton.Kyle McDonalds also made an app to enable 'facial substitution' where he shows how a user can pull faces as Marilyn Monroe, Steve Jobs and Salvador Dali (pictured). While it is reported that the software can struggle to keep a mask in place if a user moves their head too suddenly, it does skew a person’s sense of self.‘I think a lot of things are coming together right now that makes it possible to change or augment your perception of reality,’ Mr Øygard said.

‘Face substitution Co.Design is one of the things which probably will get much better over time and we'll see it pop up more places.’Mr Øygard was inspired to create his software, having seen the work of Kyle McDonalds, who also made an app to enable 'facial substitution' where he shows how a user can pull faces as Marilyn Monroe, Salvador Dali, Steve Jobs, Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton, to name but a few celebrities featured in a demonstration video.While the technology currently allows users to have fun virtually dressing up as celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe, it could pave the way for advanced video chatting services and facial recognition apps. Users report that the software skews their sense of self and they tend to adopt similar facial expressions to those regularly shown by the celebrity whose face they are trying on. Left, is George Clooney's features imposed on a user's face, and the star at an event (right)He explained in a meeting  that fitting a facial model is useful for pinpointing facial features for detecting an emotion or identifying someone. 

The app is based on an algorithm used to fit a facial model to a real face in a video and consists of 70 points or ‘classifiers’.Given an approximate position, the classifiers search a small region around each facial point to get the best fit for the mask. Norwegian computer scientist Audun Øygard created 'CLMtrackr' so that a web cam can map 70 distinct points on a person's face to face substitution will get much better over time and will be used in more situations than simply trying on celebrities' features for fun. Here, a software demo shows a young man with the Queen's features superimposed on his face. 

Queen Elizabeth II is pictured right..Mr Øygard said there is room for improvement, as the app does not fit 'postures' that deviate from the average very well. He said a 3D model instead of a 2D one could help to make the software more accurate, but building a 3D model is more difficult. 
If the concept is made to look more realistic, it could perhaps be used as an alternative to real plastic surgery in the future, as people could create their ideal appearance to use online. In the future a 3D model instead of a 2D one could help to make the software more accurate, but building a 3D model is more difficult. Here,a  demonstrator tests our Rihanna's face. If the concept is made to look more realistic, it could perhaps be used as an alternative to real plastic surgery, as people could create their ideal appearance to use online. Here, a user is pictured trying out Audrey Hepburn's look (left), while the actress is pictured right