I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by pepys » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 7:55 PM UTC

I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face
nytimes.com

Re: I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by hackuser » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 11:48 PM UTC

There's another story about the technology's accuracy and its application in law enforcement, here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/science/building-face-and-...

Re: I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by orta » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 12:16 AM UTC

This happened to me, an artist took the DNA from my github and created my face back in 2013. Cool stuff.

https://github.com/orta/dna

Re: I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by ap22213 » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 12:40 AM UTC

I wanted to do something similar last year, but I figured that I'd need a lot of input data to classify on facial features. Where do people get the input data?

Re: I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by grandalf » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 12:41 AM UTC

Those are the results with a training set of 7000, I imagine it would get spookily accurate with a 50K training set.

Re: I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by jessedhillon » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 12:59 AM UTC

orta wrote: post #3

This happened to me, an artist took the DNA from my github and created my face back in 2013. Cool stuff. https://github.com/orta/dna

Do you have a photo of your face in roughly the same pose for comparison? Also, why does the nose look so faceted?

Re: I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by dogma1138 » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 1:10 AM UTC

Quite interesting however the portraits really have almost no resemblance to the subjects.

Yeah they look kinda "similar" but virtually every facial feature other than base racial feature is incorrect. All of the renderings attempt to pretty much render a racially correct "grey face" which can pretty much fit almost anyone.

Everything else from the shape and position of the eyes, nose bridge, cheekbones, lips etc. doesn't match the real photographs.

I really hope that this doesn't reach law enforcement because those sketches will fit every "average" person in their respective racial group, and it even seem to get the ethnic group wrong in at least 1 out of the 3 renderings...

Re: I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by rl3 » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 1:23 AM UTC

Imagine people with stunted growth or disfigurement as a result of non-genetic circumstance, using a more accurate form of this technology to see what they would have looked like otherwise.

Profoundly sad to think about.

On the other hand, one possible use for such renderings could be to guide reconstructive medical procedures.

Re: I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by personjerry » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 1:23 AM UTC

I've been waiting to see something like this, it's very neat (if somewhat unrefined).

Now apply OldBooth and we'll be able to see what our babies will look like. Brave New World here we come!

Re: I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face

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Post by heurist » Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 1:26 AM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #7

Quite interesting however the portraits really have almost no resemblance to the subjects. Yeah they look kinda "similar" but virtually every facial feature other than base racial feature is incorrect. All of the renderings attempt to pretty much render a racially correct "grey face" which can pretty much fit almost anyone. Everything else from the shape and position of the eyes, nose bridge, cheekbones, lips etc. do…

Agreed. It seems like nutrition, illness/disease, and random developmental quirks would all drastically affect the actual shape of a human's face between birth and adulthood. You might be able to predict a range of faces to account for these differences, I guess, but then you have a broad range of faces that might match a broad range of people...