I think it does involve being confronted with two different faces or objects randomly chosen/positioned and finding/recognizing the similarities between them.
If you have watched the video carefully then you have heard that they have spoken from automated algorithms which do the matching. On an initial macroscopic scale there is some human hint necessary but on a microscopic scale it is done by software alone and after the initial matching, the complete morphing is done even on macroscopic scales. Computer generated morphing between complete different objects as it is the case in your picture is no problem for computers after an initial matching of some points of the first and the last picture is made by humans. It is a common special effect in many science fiction movies. In the morphing video I have given, there were no manual initial matching of points necessary. Only the macroscopic position of two faces had to be adjusted manually. - Matthias Heger Mike Tintner wrote: Matthias: I think here you can see that automated mapping between different faces is possible and the computer can smoothly morph between them. I think, the performance is much better than the imagination of humans can be. http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA Matthias, Perhaps we're having difficulties communicating in words about a highly visual subject. The above involves morphing systematically from a single face. It does not involve being confronted with two different faces or objects randomly chosen/positioned and finding/recognizing the similarities between them . My God, if it did, computers would have no problems with visual object (or facial) recognition. Of course, morphing operations by computers are better, i.e. immensely more detailed and accurate, than anything the human mind can achieve - better at, if you like, the mechanical *implementation* of imagination. (But bear in mind that it was the imagination of the programmer that decided in the above software, which face should be transformed into which face. The software could not by itself choose or create a totally new face to add to its repertoire without guidance). What rational computers can't do is find similarities between disparate, irregular objects - via fluid transformation - the essence of imagination. I repeat - computers can't do this - http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk/_articles/2005/09/16/doodle/hero.jpg and therein lies the central mechanism of analogy and metaphor. Rather than simply objecting to this, the focus should be on *how* to endow computers with imagination. ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
