MotionPortrait Animates Human Face in Pictures

A former venture of Sony Corp’s Kihara Laboratory, the new MotionPortrait company has developed a tool called “MotionPortrait” that can analyze a picture of a human face and animate it.

The core technology which has the same name as the company “MotionPortrait ” enables to create a 3D graphic by automatically identifying specific characteristics such as the shapes of eyes and mouth of a human face in a picture. The eyes and mouth can be moved at will because computer graphics CG are created from a still picture

It’s interesting technology, aimed mainly at created human interaction systems for computers (from the article).  You can see a demo of the technology at the MotionPortrait website.  It’s impressive, but they still have a bit of an uncanny valley problem.

via Sony Venture Animates Human Face in Picture [Part 1] — Tech-On!.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .