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Averaging inanimate objects can produce human faces (Synopsis) [Starts With A Bang]
“Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.” -Albert Camus
It’s well known that by aligning and averaging a wide variety of human faces together, an eerie “average” human face can be arrived at. But we see faces in things all the time, from natural scenes like terrain to artificial ones like cars, coffeemakers and combination locks.
Images credit: Instagram, via the hashtag #FacesInThings, retrieved from Robby Kraft at http://robbykraft.com/sfpc/index.php?controller=post&action=view&id_post=10.
For the first time, someone averaged together a large number of images of objects appearing to have faces, and the result, strikingly, was an eerily human face. You’d think this might say more about the algorithm than the images themselves, but when noise was used, no human face emerged at all.
Image credit: Robby Kraft, via http://robbykraft.com/sfpc/index.php?controller=post&action=view&id_post=10, of a single generated noise image (L) and of the 47 averaged images (R) where faces were successfully detected.
Go view Robby Kraft’s incredible project this weekend over at Forbes!
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2015/11/15/averaging-inanimate-objects-can-produce-human-faces-synopsis/
