Our in-house research software is used for prototyping, transformation and analysis of facial images. The software is currently unavailable for all but a limited number of close research collaborators, although we do hope to make a commercial version available in the near future.
The software is constantly under development, and so we only list the main features here.
Manual, interactive or automatic placement of facial feature points and lines, and the ability to design your own facial feature templates.
Facial (or other image prototypes) can be built from lists of delineated image files. A selection of image warping options (e.g. contour resampling and foldover control) and image processing options (e.g. texture processing) are available.
Typical group differences can be defined as the differences between two prototype faces (e.g. male and female). These differences can be applied to an individual's face, for example to age or gender change their face. Any combination of shape, colour and texture transforms can be applied in varying amounts. Transformation image sequences can also be built, for making short movie clips or interactive experiments.
Facial analysis tools, such as Linear Regression or Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of shape, colour and/or texture can be performed, and used to analyse or synthesise facial images.
The software currently runs on the Windows platform only, but is designed to be portable to other platforms.
If you are interested in a research collaboration, or would like to be informed when a commerical version of the software is available, please contact us via email or using this form.