It's interesting to see the US and UK governments funding something like face tracking/cloning technology. I suspect the primary application for this will play some role in national security protocol somewhere (probably quite a few somewheres), but it also looks like it will make it's way into the commercial sector at some point. It looks pretty accurate, may deliver a solution for capture free non-linear face animation and may eliminate the need for blend shape creation almost completely for those situations that really require breakneck speed production at a higher quality than what's currently available. My hope is that if it does become commercially available, because it is partly publicly funded there will be less profit motive behind it's delivery, in a perfect world it would be nice to see a version of this released to the open source community, but we'll see.
The research is being done at the University of East Anglia (UEA):
UEA: Face Cloning
Some Vids:
Expression Cloning
The Register's Article on this:
'Cloned' CGI faces mimic people 'better than skilled actors'
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