Ethnicity Management

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Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the face of the artist transforms continuously into his asian or african counterpart. This counterpart is not just a new person, but a synthetic version of his own face with everything changed that is specific to ethnicity, but everything retained that sets him apart from the average male white. Is it the same person still, or another, and how could it be another if we didn't see him change? The technology behind this work is an average caucasian (white), asian and african face generated from 3D scans. The average faces and all original faces can be thought of as points in a high-dimensional Face Space. Differences between ethnic averages describe what is typical to ethnicity. Adding them to a face affects only the perceived ethnicity, yet leaves all unrelated features unchanged. The virtual experiment of Colour Management reduces ethnicity to a controlled parameter at the disposal of Facial Engineering.

"Ozzy bin Oswald" ozzybinoswald

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Ethnicity
• Management
• morphing
• blanz
• transformation
• asian
• african
• caucasian
• black
• white
• race
• racial
• ethnic
• change
• alteration
• average
• face
• face space
• Ozzy bin Oswald
• ozzybinoswald

[batflies]

That dude is a fucking chameleon.

[074August]

ozzy, thanks for giving everyone the heads up on this technology. Google search on facial engineering brings more light to a field in which not many are knowledgeable.

Govt will be using it to bring bin Laden back to life.