Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
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Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
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Re: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
#2neat, but eigenfaces is really overplayed and outdated, there's lots of better face recognition algorithms that can handle a bit of distortion/deformation that really plagues principal component methods
Re: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
#3I wonder whether this analysis supports the assertion that these were photoshopped?
http://kotaku.com/blame-photoshop-for-koreas-beauty-queen-cl...
Re: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
#4neat, but eigenfaces is really overplayed and outdated, there's lots of better face recognition algorithms that can handle a bit of distortion/deformation that really plagues principal component methods
Interested to read about the better algorithms if you have some good resources.
Re: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
#5So... like even in the of-course-it-is-what-are-you-completely-naive photoshopped press photos, they don't really look that similar?
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#6"Recognition" should be replaced by "Morphing" in title.
Currently it makes no sense.
Re: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
#7I do recall a certain cynical Korean friend of mine quipping, "girls who go to the same plastic surgeon look more similar than their own sisters"
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#8It's all in good spirit, but I can't help to note that it wreeks of the old racist trope "all look the same"
http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/24/they-all-look-the-same...
And perhaps also a bit sexist? I dunno, maybe I'm overly sensitive.
Re: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
#9It's all in good spirit, but I can't help to note that it wreeks of the old racist trope "all look the same" http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/24/they-all-look-the-same... And perhaps also a bit sexist? I dunno, maybe I'm overly sensitive.
When it's actually got a foundation in math, it stops being a racist trope and becomes a valid scientific inquiry.
Sexist? Overly sensitive would be one word for it.
Re: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing
#10It's worrying how this keeps getting upvoted despite having been debunked before it even hit HN, and the top comments on both HN and the original post pointing to the article that debunks it.
This is one scenario in which HN could really use downvotes.