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Hi(gh)!
Experimenting with my picture collection of long-haired bearded men...
This hippie straight out of the 1960s has to ask what is this?
Hi(gh)!
convert -average hippie*.png hippies_avg_001-100.png
ImageMagick is really a hot tool!
In the not too distant future, there will be versions with 200, 400, 800 and 1600 averaged "hippie" (= long-haired and bearded men, not hippies in a strict sense) images...
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Yadgar...what are you smoking?
ImageMagick is a Linux console-based graphics processor... its "-average" feature simply takes a sequence of images, calculates the arithmetic mean for each pixel and saves the resulting averaged image! So what I posted here is simply 100 images averaged!
I'm just curious to find something like the essence of bearded long-hairedness by averaging as many pictures of long-haired bearded men as possible, concentrating of facial views...
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Hi(gh)!
I also created a video using this technique (plus a self-written bash scr ipt):
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Whats is the point when the image is incomprehensible?
Hi(gh)!
Probably I'm too much into the artsy side of computer graphics...
Of course, a really sophisticated, vector-based algorithm would average face and hair contours and blend them all into a recognizable "prototypical face" - but this is far beyond the capability of a hobby programmer!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
I'm not sure what it is supposed to look like but on this end it looks a photo of a person that is very much out of focus.
Hi(gh)!
...with shoulder-length reddish-blonde hair, and if you look closely, there is also a hint at a beard!
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Not on my end, too out of focus to make out anything.
Huh?
I've been using computers since 1973 and have no clue what you're trying to do here.
I think what he's trying to do is something like this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2435688/The-average-woman-revealed-Study-blends-thousands-faces-worlds-women-look-like.html
You have to be very precise in getting the faces aligned and resized. The models also need to pose exactly the same; same smile, same expression, same angle, same lighting. Even then, the hair is naturally going to be blurry because ... hair.
