| I love the idea, didn't see last week's but I'll join in today. Currently working on a project known as Senescere, latin for 'to grow old'. Before working in HVAC optimization, for grad school I was a research assistant to a face recognition laboratory that specialized in digitally aging the face based on statistical data such as race/age/gender. Recently, our system was used by Allure magazine to get the opinions of plastic surgery from college-aged women; we're looking to piggy back the exposure with a web app that you can use to see how you age. Right now, I have a base front-end built up, though we are tweaking to think of better wording. Front-end Top Portion (Image from PlaceIt by Breezi)- http://imgur.com/50zZgs3 Front-end Second Portion - http://imgur.com/f48NGGF After an image gets uploaded, we ask to point out the eyes and nose so we can align all 252 'landmark points' to the face through affine transformation. As of right now, I'm in the process of switching where the payment part comes into play. If someone uploads an image, it is added to their dashboard (where I am currently cleaning up). Uploaded Face Labeling - http://imgur.com/JvtTcoB User Dashboard - http://imgur.com/Rk95jTI Affine Transformation - http://imgur.com/eBeVydI Once everything is squared away, I'll be looking towards automating our aging process, since it currently is very 'hands on'. If we get enough traction through this, I'd like to branch out from the 'app' area into working with cosmetic companies to build something they can use to show makeup/aging creams without wasting product. |
More and more of them are already using things like Square in their purchase processes, I imagine having an app on hand to transform clientele beforehand would be pretty enticing.