Conceptual Trends and Current Topics

kk.org - 7/29/2008

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Face Swapper Privacy This is a cool hack. Face swapping software finds faces in a photograph and swaps the features in the target face from a library of faces. This can be used to "de-identify" faces that appear in public, such as the faces of people caught by the cameras of Google Street View. So instead of simply blurring the face, the software can substitute random features taken from say ...

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Boing Boing: Face swapper software protects privacy

Gizmodo: Face-Swapping Tech Keeps Your Privacy Online By Making You Look Horrifying [Privacy]

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Face swapper software protects privacy
Boing Boing — ... people in photos to protect their privacy. Face swapping software finds faces in a photograph and swaps the features in the target face from a library of faces. This can be used to "de-identify" faces that appear in public, such as the faces of people caught by the cameras of Google Street View. So instead of simply blurring the face, the software can substitute random features taken from say Flickr's pool of faces. A mouth here, an eye there. Face Swapper Privacy (Conceptual Trends and Current Topics) ...

Face-Swapping Tech Keeps Your Privacy Online By Making You Look Horrifying [Privacy]
Gizmodo — ... Interesting. Who knows if Google will ever implement anything like this, but if they do, Street Maps will make every city look like it's populated by girls with gross facial hair and unsettling boy-women. [Kevin Kelly via ...