Being John Malkovich

  • Authors:
  • Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman;Aditya Sankar;Eli Shechtman;Steven M. Seitz

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington;University of Washington;Adobe Systems;University of Washington and Google Inc.

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'10 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Computer vision: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Given a photo of person A, we seek a photo of person B with similar pose and expression. Solving this problem enables a form of puppetry, in which one person appears to control the face of another. When deployed on a webcam-equipped computer, our approach enables a user to control another person's face in real-time. This image-retrieval-inspired approach employs a fully-automated pipeline of face analysis techniques, and is extremely general--we can puppet anyone directly from their photo collection or videos in which they appear. We show several examples using images and videos of celebrities from the Internet.