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Trading Faces

Software gives you a face lift (geddit?)

20 June 2008 11:50 GMT / By Katie Scott

Do you remember that movie with Nicholas Cage and John Travolta when a cop and a gangster swapped faces?

Well it seems the technology to allow us to do this convincingly, albeit on screen, is not far off perfection.

Software designer Dan O’Sullivan has launched the Trading Faces project, which uses face detection technology to merge the faces of two or more people by mirroring the facial image on another persons profile.

According to face swoppers, except for the fact that they have someone elses facial features, they look totally normal.

But the progress of this sort of technology could possibly lead to some pretty suspicious motives.

Apparently the software needs some "tuning" before it's ready for public consumption.

Do you reckon Keira Knightley might lend me her face?

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