{"id":24050,"date":"2016-03-28T17:56:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/watch-a-man-manipulate-george-bushs-face-in-real-time"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:39:04","slug":"watch-a-man-manipulate-george-bushs-face-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/watch-a-man-manipulate-george-bushs-face-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Watch a man manipulate George Bush\u2019s face in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ohmajJTcpNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know that scene in the classic film <i>Bruce Almighty<\/i> when Jim Carrey uses his God-like powers to mess with Steve Carrell\u2019s character while he\u2019s giving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iplfWUtKMzI\">live news broadcast<\/a>? That\u2019s what this video looks like (kind of), except replace Steve Carrell for George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Barack Obama, and Jim Carrey for a team of wily researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The system was designed by researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Max-Planck-Institude for Informatics, and Stanford University. The same team worked on a similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/10\/15\/9541985\/Real-time-expression-transfer-facial-reenactment\">facial expression transfer project<\/a> last year, but that involved controlling the expressions of someone in the same room. This time they\u2019re doing it with YouTube <i>videos<\/i>. First, the \u201ctarget actor\u201d (that\u2019s Bush, Trump, Putin, and Obama) is rendered with a neutral expression. Then, the expressions of the source actor (that\u2019s the other guy) are captured via webcam, and those expressions control the animation in the YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p>Is this funny? Eerie? Cool? Does it remind you of a Dan Deacon music video? Are you worried about a stranger suddenly being able to control your face from afar? Maybe you should be.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/21\/11275462\/facial-transfer-donald-trump-george-bush-video\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/21\/11275462\/facial-transfer-d...bush-video<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that scene in the classic film Bruce Almighty when Jim Carrey uses his God-like powers to mess with Steve Carrell\u2019s character while he\u2019s giving a live news broadcast? That\u2019s what this video looks like (kind of), except replace Steve Carrell for George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Barack Obama, and Jim [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42873,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24050\/revisions\/42873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}