Real time video face substitution (and the resulting "psychological hacks")

Icelus

"Arturo Castro's real time face substitution technique"

Link/Videos: http://www.notcot.org/post/43233/

An HN comment I found very interesting:

Real-time virtual puppeting has been done in movies/television and research for a while now and yes, it can easily fool people.
A professor friend of mine Jeremy Bailenson at Stanford actually uses the Kinect to track facial movements and uses 3D models of others to create puppets in real-time. Even more interesting, he can morph your face with the person you're video conferencing with to create a feeling of commonality in them.

He actually wrote a book on it called Infinite Reality [1] which talks about all kinds of ways people will probably get manipulated in the future. He talks about things like mirroring movements (which he can do automatically in a video conference), looking into the eyes of every participant in a group video conference and other really interesting psychological hacks.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Reality-Avatars-Eternal-Revolution/dp/0061809500/

From: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022929

Hacker News discussion thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022479

"Arturo Castro's real time face substitution technique"

Link/Videos: http://www.notcot.org/post/43233/

An HN comment I found very interesting:

Real-time virtual puppeting has been done in movies/television and research for a while now and yes, it can easily fool people.
A professor friend of mine Jeremy Bailenson at Stanford actually uses the Kinect to track facial movements and uses 3D models of others to create puppets in real-time. Even more interesting, he can morph your face with the person you're video conferencing with to create a feeling of commonality in them.

He actually wrote a book on it called Infinite Reality [1] which talks about all kinds of ways people will probably get manipulated in the future. He talks about things like mirroring movements (which he can do automatically in a video conference), looking into the eyes of every participant in a group video conference and other really interesting psychological hacks.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Reality-Avatars-Eternal-Revolution/dp/0061809500/

From: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022929

Hacker News discussion thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3022479

So much for technology helping us be more verifiably honest: http://hanson.gmu.edu/moretrue.pdf

Now it looks much more like an arms race.

I see it as a cat-and-mouse game, like the spam problem.

Or even better is the problem of Photoshopping things which people have come up with some I guess fairly good tool to counter:

“Error level analysis (ELA) works by intentionally resaving the image at a known error rate, such as 95%, and then computing the difference between the images. If there is virtually no change, then the cell has reached its local minima for error at that quality level. However, if there is a large amount of change, then the pixels are not at their local minima and are effectiv

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