Face2Face: Real-time facial reenactment

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 143-146
Author(s):  
Justus Thies
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
The United States ◽  
Input Image ◽  
Face Tracking ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Video Teleconferencing ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

Abstract This article summarizes the dissertation “Face2Face: Realtime Facial Reenactment” by Justus Thies (Eurographics Graphics Dissertation Online, 2017). It shows advances in the field of 3D reconstruction of human faces using commodity hardware. Besides the reconstruction of the facial geometry and texture, real-time face tracking is demonstrated. The developed algorithms are based on the principle of analysis-by-synthesis. To apply this principle, a mathematical model that represents a face virtually is defined. Utilizing this model to synthesize facial imagery, the model parameters are adjusted, such that the synthesized image fits the input image as good as possible. Thus, in reverse, this process transfers the input image to a virtual representation of the face. The achieved quality allows many new applications that require a good reconstruction of the face. One of these applications is the so-called “Facial Reenactment”. Our developed methods show that such an application does not need any special hardware. The generated results are nearly photo-realistic videos that show the transfer of the expressions of one person to another person. These techniques can for example be used to bring movie dubbing to a new level. Instead of adapting the audio to the video, which might also include changes of the text, the video can be post-processed to match the mouth movements of the dubber. Since the approaches that are shown in the dissertation run in real-time, one can also think of a live dubber in a video teleconferencing system that simultaneously translates the speech of a person to another language. The published videos of the projects in this dissertation led to a broad discussion in the media. On the one hand this is due to the fact that our methods are designed such that they run in real-time and on the other hand that we reduced the hardware requirements to a minimum while improving the resulting quality. In fact, after some preprocessing, we are able to edit ordinary videos from the Internet in real-time. Amongst others, we impose a different mimic to faces of prominent persons like former presidents of the United States of America. This led inevitably to a discussion about trustworthiness of video material, especially from unknown source. Most people did not expect that such manipulations are possible, neglecting existing methods that are already able to edit videos (e. g. special effects in movie productions). Thus, besides the advances in real-time face tracking, our projects raised the awareness of video manipulation.

Humanitarian branding and the media

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Vestergaard
Keyword(s):  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Space ◽  
The One ◽  
Commercial Organizations ◽  
High Degree

The development of corporate communication in recent years has brought about a fading of the division of labor between commercial and non-commercial organizations. While the practices of commercial organizations are becoming increasingly ethicalized, so the practices of non-profit organizations are becoming increasingly commercialized. This paper explores the use of media discourse for the communication of ethical messages by humanitarian organizations, caught, as they are, in a tension between, on the one hand, the commercial strategies of visibility and still greater dependence on the media, and, on the other hand, the public’s skepticism toward mediated morality and what is commonly referred to as compassion fatigue. The issue is investigated through an analysis of a TV spot produced by the Danish section of Amnesty International in 2004. This spot is taken as an example of how the organization’s branding strategies testify to a high degree of reflexivity about the conditions of what Luc Boltanski calls a Crisis of Pity. The analysis illustrates how, in the face of compassion fatigue, the organization manages to carve out a new space for itself in the marketized ethical discourse, and leads to a discussion of the consequences of such rebranding for the construction of morality by the organization.

Digital Resources: Chile’s Centro de Investigación y Documentación (CIDOC) and Anti-Communism in the 1964 Elections

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Botto Stuven
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Christian Democracy ◽  
Salvador Allende ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

The Documentation Center of the Contemporary History of Chile (CIDOC), which belongs to the Universidad Finis Terrae (Santiago), has a digital archive that contains the posters and newspapers inserts of the anti-communist campaign against Salvador Allende’s presidential candidacy in 1964. These appeared in the main right-wing newspapers of Santiago, between January and September of 1964. Although the collection of posters in CIDOC is not complete, it is a resource of great value for those who want to research this historical juncture, considering that those elections were by far the most contested and conflicting in the history of Chile during the 20th Century, as it implicted the confrontation between two candidates defending two different conceptions about society, politics, and economics. On the one hand, Salvador Allende, the candidate of the Chilean left; on the other, Eduardo Frei, the candidate of the Christian Democracy, coupled with the traditional parties of the Right. While the technical elements of the programs of both candidates did not differ much from each other, the political campaign became the scenario for an authentic war between the “media” that stood up for one or the other candidate. Frei’s anticommunist campaign had the financial aid of the United States, and these funds were used to gather all possible resources to create a real “terror” in the population at the perspective of the Left coming to power. The Chilean Left labeled this strategy of using fear as the “Terror Campaign.”

The Watchdog Still Barks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Knobel
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
Ownership Structures ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Important Form ◽  
Better Than

Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog role. It is easier for politicians to get away with abusing power, wasting public funds, and making poor decisions if the press is not shining its light with what is termed “accountability reporting.” This need has become especially clear as the American press has come under direct attack for carrying out its watchdog duties. This book presents a study of how this most important form of journalism came of age in the digital era at American newspapers. The book examines the front pages of nine newspapers, located across the United States, for clues on how papers addressed the watchdog role as the advent of the Internet transformed journalism. It shows how papers of varying sizes and ownership structures around the country marshaled resources for accountability reporting despite significant financial and technological challenges. Although the American newspaper industry contracted significantly during the 1990s and 2000s due to the digital transformation, the data collected in this book shows that the papers held fast to the watchdog role. The newspapers all endured budget and staff cuts during the 20 years studied as paid circulation and advertising dropped, but the amount of deep watchdog reporting on their front pages generally increased over this time. The book contains interviews with editors of the newspapers studied, who explain why they are staking their papers' futures on the one thing that American newspapers still do better than any other segment of the media—watchdog and investigative reporting.

scholarly journals Categorical Stigma and Firm Disengagement: Nuclear Power Generation in the United States, 1970-2000

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Piazza ◽  
Fabrizio Perretti
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Reactor ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Organizational Responses ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Management Techniques

How do organizations react to stakeholder disapproval of a category to which they belong? In this paper, we draw on the categorization, stigma, and identity literatures in building a theory to predict whether firms that are involved in stigmatized activities will choose to reduce or terminate their involvement in them, as opposed to resorting to less drastic measures such as defensive practice adoption or impression management techniques. Conceptualizing groups of organizations involved in such contentious practices as stigmatized categories in the eyes of an audience, we argue that organizational responses rest on three elements: (1) the intensity of stigma targeting the category, (2) the media exposure of the category, and (3) the extent to which an organization is a member of the category. A quantitative study of proposed new nuclear reactor units in the United States between 1970 and 2000, in the face of mounting opposition to atomic power, provides empirical support for our claims.

scholarly journals Multimodal verge for scale and pose variant real time face tracking and recognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 665
Author(s):  
Ramkumar Govindaraj ◽  
E. Logashanmugam
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Face Recognition ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Face Tracking ◽  
Low Rank ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
The Face ◽  
Low Rank Representation ◽  
Tracking And Recognition

In recent times face tracking and face recognition have turned out to be increasingly dynamic research field in image processing. This work proposed the framework DEtecting Contiguous Outliers in the LOw-rank Representation for face tracking, in this algorithm the background is assessed by a low-rank network and foreground articles can be distinguished as anomalies. This is suitable for non-rigid foreground motion and moving camera. The face of a foreground person is caught from the frame and then it is contrasted and the speculated pictures stored in the dataset. Here we used Viola-Jones algorithm for face recognition. This approach outperforms the traditional algorithms on multimodal video methodologies and it works adequately on extensive variety of security and surveillance purposes. Results on the continuous demonstrate that the proposed calculation can correctly obtain facial features points. The algorithm is relegate on the continuous camera input and under ongoing ecological conditions.

scholarly journals Living in between a house and a home: Where’s the comfort zone anyway? Dislocated identities in Morrison’s "The Bluest Eye" and Cisneros’ "The House on Mango Street"

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Alcina Pereira de Sousa ◽  
Alda Maria Correia
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Comfort Zone ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
Selection Of

This paper aims to provide a reflection on literary representations of home alternatively to current collocations in the media, in the psychological and sociological realm (home vs comfort zone). The selection of two postcolonial texts, one by Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970), and another by Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984), provides ways-in to discuss changing social and cultural experiences with a focus on characters’ search for identity in a multicultural and multilingual setting, as is the one in the United States. The study will depart from a brief theoretical survey (Anderson 1991) to a corpus-based approach which maps such shifts and changes (Baker 2006) while resorting to a close analysis of contexts of occurrence of the keywords home and house, along with their patterns of collocation, in the texts under scope (from the sentence to the textual levels, following Biber et al. 1998; Sinclair 2004, among other). The analysis is meant to unveil ways in which writers make use of linguistic structures and most importantly what it means to be at home when characters never felt welcome there, or characters’ inner / outer struggle to develop a sense of belonging in disrupted settings.

scholarly journals The American Reception and Settlement of Hungarian Refugees in 1956–1957

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 197-205
Author(s):  
Peter Pastor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Educational Level ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
The People ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

In the wake of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, close to two hundred thousand Hungarians crossed into Austria.  About thirty thousand of these refugees were allowed to enter the United States. Their common experience of living under totalitarian communism and participating or being a witness to the exhilarating thirteen days of the revolution and their sudden, previously unplanned, departure from the homeland gave them a collective identity that was different from the one shared by the people of previous waves of Hungarian influx to the United States. The high educational level of the refugees attained before and after their arrival made their absorption into the mainstream relatively easy. The integration process was facilitated by the shaping of a positive image of the 1956 refugees by the US government and the media.  The reestablishment of the communist system in post-1956 Hungary contributed to the perception that, for the refugees in the United States, there was no hope for return to the homeland.  This assumption strengthened the attitudes of those who wished to embrace the American melting pot model.  Many of the 1956-ers in the United Sates, however, were also comfortable with the notion of ethnic pride and believed in the shaping of a dual national identity.

scholarly journals Muslim Diaspora in the West

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-113
Author(s):  
Anna Piela
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Moral Conviction ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Selection Of

This excellent edited collection unpicks and disputes multifarious and intricate processes that underpin the homogenization, otherization, and vilification of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, Muslim citizens, and individuals with a Muslim cultural background in the group of countries known as “the West.” It does so through presenting a selection of essays that offer an insight into the localized, day-to-day realities of people whose lives are currently defined by their link to Islam. The focus on gender, home, and belonging emphasizes the particular challenge faced by Muslim women: Their bodies are the battleground for the ideological wars fought by western governments on the one hand, and by political Islamists on the other (pp. 30-31). At the same time, media outlets and governmental policies portray and essentialize all Muslims as a single, uniform community defined exclusively by their Muslimness, thereby ignoring any of their differences based on “national origin, rural-urban roots, class, gender, language, lifestyle and degree of religiosity, as well as political and moral conviction” (p. 2). As all of the essays demonstrate, these concerns about representation remain valid, despite the critiques of historical and contemporary orientalism published by Edward Said over thirty years ago notwithstanding: Orientalism (1979) and Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (1981). The collection is a result of two conferences held in Toronto (2006) and Amsterdam (2008) to discuss these issues. It is organized around four themes: discourse, organizations, and policy; sexuality and family; youth; and space and belonging. The first theme is represented by different perspectives from the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Halleh Ghorashi analyzes the disempowering effects of supposedly “empowering courses” for immigrant women of Muslim backgrounds and indicates how women themselves critique the terms on which such courses are delivered. Fauzia Erfan Ahmed writes about the deteriorating situation for female American Muslim community leaders who are forced into silence despite a long history of female leadership since the time of slavery. Cassandra Balchin’s chapter focuses on Muslim women’s refusal to cede the discourse of their legal rights to both the governments and to patriarchal males within Muslim communities, who are ...

scholarly journals Different from Us: Teaching About the Rich After Occupy and the Great Recession

2015 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Richard Ohmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The One

In a famous imaginary exchange, F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The rich are different from us."  Ernest Hemingway replied, "Yes, they have more money."   Most critics have thought the epigram attributed to Fitzgerald more perceptive about class in the United States than the one attributed to Hemingway.  But if we're looking for a wry take on how class has been understood, in the media and among college students, Hemingway's comment is pretty good.  

Navigating the Regulatory Environment in American Urban Areas

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-71
Author(s):  
Matthew Lehnert ◽  
Isabelle Nilsson ◽  
Neil Reid
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Neighborhood Revitalization ◽  
Zoning Regulations ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Cities

The impressive growth in the number of craft breweries in the United States has created both opportunities and challenges for municipalities. On the one hand, it is evident that craft breweries can add to the diversity of the urban fabric and contribute in a meaningful way to neighborhood vitality and, in the case of distressed areas, to neighborhood revitalization. On the other hand, zoning regulations in many municipalities have not been particularly accommodating. Craft breweries pose a challenge to municipalities, as their businesses represent a hybrid of restaurant, manufacturer, and entertainment. To capitalize on the growing popularity of craft breweries, municipalities have been changing their zoning ordinances. In this chapter, we examine the relationship between craft breweries and zoning in three American cities. We seek to highlight the differences and similarities that craft breweries face in seeking optimal locations, in the face of zoning challenges.

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