Daily CVPR - Thursday

CVPR Expo 7 CVPR Daily: Thursday Shuicheng and Cheong invited me to see something very special at the Qihoo 360 booth and I was not disappointed. Follow the guide! They showed me a very good facial analysis system . Very accurate, stable, and energy efficient. Accurate means that if you stand in front of the camera, the position or the important points will be very accurate. Second, it will be very stable. Stable also means when you speak, all the points will stick on your face with markers. It is also very robust, in the sense that when only a part of the face is visible, even only one quarter of it, these points are still very accurate and stable. With this kind of functions, many things become possible: make a face look thinner or enlarge the eyes to make it look more beautiful. In Asian culture, Shuicheng told me, thin face and big eyes make one’s aspect beautiful. You can also perform analysis, for example, of the age or gender, whether you wear glasses, how beautiful you are, etc. Your humble servant tried this out , see the results in the bottom right image! Qihoo 360 Mask transfer effect This is what Qihoo’s software says about me! I look 2 years younger than I am, I wear glasses, I am a gentleman (of course, I am Italian!) and my face is smiling  The Qihoo/360 AI Institute claims a face SDK which is very stable in regards to head movement, expression changes and pose changes, as well as robust to partial visibility of the face. These features are critical for face manipulations/editing like mask transfer (see image below).