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November 16, 2015 02:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tnmHxDigsms/averaging-inanimate-objects-together-produces-a-very-human-face
Averaging Inanimate Objects Together Produces a Very Human Face
StartsWithABang writes: It's well known that by aligning and averaging a wide variety of human faces together, an eerie "average" human face can be arrived at. But we see faces in things all the time, from natural scenes like terrain to artificial ones like cars, coffeemakers and combination locks. For the first time, someone averaged together a large number of images of objects appearing to have faces, and the result, strikingly, was an eerily human face. You'd think this might say more about the algorithm than the images themselves, but when noise was used, no human face emerged at all.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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