A sample of my reactions as the video played:

That's interesting.

Wow.

Holy shit!

Oh, my God.

This is one of the most amazing things I've seen for a long time.

This is obviously still preliminary work. It looks great as a series of static images, although some of those facial expressions didn't quite work, bringing the faces back to the Uncanny Valley. Animating those revised faces is going to be an immense challenge, but this is still an awesome start.

This is pretty amazing indeed. But one starts to wonder how this could be applied to video manipulation and make all kinds of convincing fake videos. This could be used for scary results like framing people etc.
On the other hand it could also be used for a lot of fun things like creating a very convincing avatar of yourself. Or populating games with characters that are all unique and randomly generated.
Though like maudlin said the expressions weren't convincing enough yet.

Seriously throughout this video I was all like "please, please,please do mona lisa", and suddenly the painting appear!! its surely part of the da-vinci code conspiracy, guess I'll have to read the book now..

oh yeah . . . this one is going straight to #1.

i did it again!

they could have at least made her smile ... was that too much to ask!?!?!

they did!, wait whos "her" mona-lisa? or the B&W pic?

fantastic

I like that Hepburn pic

lol .... yeah! moaning lisa (as my 8 yr old refers to her as (from the simpson episode of said name)) ... i was waiting to see a nice big smile!!

Woah fantastic, I study in the town where this was developed. Impressive. It's about 500 meters from where I live. Nice to know.

Up until the halfway point, I was thinking, "OK, so like twiddling morph dials on a Poser model, but with a much better dataset..." And then, yeah, wow.

On the one hand, I find this to be quite scary stuff. As Cyberbeast says, it's a big step toward making video evidence easy to fake.

On the other hand, making video evidence easy to fake would be a big step toward making CCTV redundant. I like that thought.

the last time a video went #1 here in 24 hours was the dove evolution ad, another computer-altered face...

Anyone remember the film "The Running Man"? It featured the faked death of a pair of characters via real-time "face mapping". This is about 2 or 3 years of additional development from that.

....guess what...You are all busted, the next time you see a viddie from a robbery at a store-BOOM!

That sketch artist better cash in on his/her pension-
oh, and when you can charge, the combination of this, and plastic surgery, on the AMEX, awww shit!

Here's some technical math info on how such morphings can be generated automatically, from another guy in the same department
http://nips2005.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/slides/schoelkopf05.ppt

I put off looking at this vid for ages due to the frame that shows... I thought it was going to be a retread of the poor work in Forrest Gump in changing faces on archival footage... and to begin with I was still thinking not much of it.

But yeah... MAN that's super sweet... just amazing.

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I've learned to trust the Top 15 list, no matter how bad the thumbnail looks. Take the current (or any) #1 for example.

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Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Thursday 4th January 2007 (promotion called by gold star member karaidl)

Amazing!

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