Adobe researcher Eli Shechtman & collaborators have created this excellent bit of madness:
Given a photo of person A, we seek a photo of person B with similar pose and expression. Solving this problem enables a form of puppetry, in which one person appears to control the face of another.
Now, let’s see if we can pry a webcam version out of them… [Via]
I can just see the web version of this degrading into search that plays out something like: “Hey! Remember that dude who did that face thing??” whereupon the querent attempts to replicate said face…
…and all search results come back with either Bill Cosby or ‘bitter beer face’.
Well, this will be great for the CIA. Or for trolls on chatroulette.