However, lead author Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman notes that faces present additional challenges because they move, change and age over time.
That work led to the creation of Microsoft's PhotoSynth. The result is a movie in which the subject ages two decades in less than a minute.Ī similar technique was used by UW researchers to stitch together tourist photos of buildings, in effect recreating an entire scene in 3-D. The owner scanned the older photos to create digital versions, tagged them with the subject's name and manually added the dates. To make the transitions appear even more seamless and to give the appearance of motion, the tool uses a standard fade between each image.Īn example video uses photos of a Google employee's daughter taken from birth to age 20.
