From: DanP on 29 May 2010 13:26 On May 29, 6:11 pm, Allen <all...(a)austin.rr.com> wrote: > hummingbird wrote: > That IS NOT one of those things. Please explain to us how that data is > going to get into the image file. And I'm afraid that you are going to > have to settle for back-of-head recognition. And it looks like we're > going to have to put up with you until Middle School starts again in > September. Oh, wait--I've got a better idea--plonk. > Allen I have a feeling he will reply to you after being plonked. DanP
From: Geoff. Hayward on 29 May 2010 14:03 "hummingbird" <hummingbird(a)1.0.0.127> wrote in message news:MPG.266b2dece10cfeea989782(a)news.astraweb.com... On Sat, 29 May 2010 09:33:01 -0400, Gandalf wrote : > On 5/29/2010 7:34 AM, dadiOH wrote: > > hummingbird wrote: > >> I want software to digitally manipulate my photos so I can turn the > >> subjects around. If they have their back to me, I want to see their > >> faces. > >> > >> Preferably freeware. > Well done hb, you've got them all going.
From: DanP on 29 May 2010 14:20 On May 29, 7:03 pm, "Geoff. Hayward" <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > "hummingbird" <hummingb...(a)1.0.0.127> wrote in message > > news:MPG.266b2dece10cfeea989782(a)news.astraweb.com... > On Sat, 29 May 2010 09:33:01 -0400, Gandalf wrote :> On 5/29/2010 7:34 AM, dadiOH wrote: > > > hummingbird wrote: > > >> I want software to digitally manipulate my photos so I can turn the > > >> subjects around. If they have their back to me, I want to see their > > >> faces. > > > >> Preferably freeware. > > Well done hb, you've got them all going. The lowest bidder wins the job. DanP
From: Tim Conway on 29 May 2010 14:24 "Bear Bottoms" <bearbottoms1(a)gmai.com> wrote in message news:Xns9D87C0EA1C302bearbottoms1gmaicom(a)69.16.185.250... > hummingbird <hummingbird(a)1.0.0.127> wrote in > news:MPG.266aefb2e69f75a698977c(a)news.astraweb.com: > >> I want software to digitally manipulate my photos so I can turn the >> subjects around. If they have their back to me, I want to see their >> faces. >> >> Preferably freeware. > > Hummer don't listen to the naysayers. NASA's VP-8 Image Analyzer was used > to > reconstruct the face on the Turin Shroud and is now being used by Google > as > part of their Earthhour project to enhance the parts of their streetview > images not visible to the camera. > > "A normal photograph does not result in a properly formed dimensional > image > but an inferometer combined with aldebo techniques can be used to make > image > inferences. Significant progress in image segmentation has been made by > viewing the problem in the framework of graph partitioning. In particular, > clustering methods such as "normalized cuts" (ncuts) can efficiently > calculate good segmentations using eigenvector calculations." > > http://www.shroud.com/papers.htm sounds like ghost photography
From: George Kerby on 29 May 2010 14:39
On 5/29/10 10:45 AM, in article MPG.266b46f96e15fb8b989783(a)news.astraweb.com, "hummingbird" <hummingbird(a)1.0.0.127> wrote: > On Sat, 29 May 2010 08:09:37 -0700, clw wrote : >> In article <MPG.266af1ea83b2f02698977d(a)news.astraweb.com>, >> hummingbird <hummingbird(a)1.0.0.127> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 29 May 2010 02:36:32 -0700, Bob Williams wrote : >>>> hummingbird wrote: >>>>> I want software to digitally manipulate my photos so I can >>>>> turn the subjects around. If they have their back to me, >>>>> I want to see their faces. >>>>> >>>>> Preferably freeware. >>>> >>>> Surely you jest! >>>> Bob Williams >>>> >>> >>> Are you old school? Nowadays we have got features on cameras >>> like face recognition. You can do all sorts of things you couldn't >>> do in the past. >> >> If the features are not on the film or sensor, just how the hell >> do you expect any software to imagine what the person looks like >> and then paste it onto the back of their head? > > Haven't you ever heard of extrapolation? Haven't you ever heard of face > recognition? You can do things now which you couldn't do in the past. > >>> I've got some crowd shots I took on holiday but they're not all >>> facing me and I want to see all the faces. >> >> Then quick run around to the other side of the crowd and take >> another picture. > > I made a simple request. If you don't have a sensible suggestion then > there's no need to reply. > $B!F(BMiss, can you tell which is the white Goose?$B!G!E!F(BThey say, a Fool will ask more Questions than the wisest body can answer.$B!G(B [1738 Swift Polite Conversation ii. 156] |