Researchers at the University of Washington came up with a kind of computerised celebrity facial puppeteering method. You take a whole stack of digital photos (of celebrities, for example), load them into a database, and you aim a webcam at your puppeteer's face. The puppeteer then changes his facial expression a bunch of times, and the computer mimics his face by choosing digital photos of identical facial expressions. Or something. MINUTES OF FUN. Given a large enough database of photos, you could conceivably rig a fake video of a real celebrity saying something that they didn't actually say. You know? And you'll never guess which celebrities' faces they've used to demonstrate this stuff.

Being John Malkovich - ECCV 2010 from Ira Kemelmacher on Vimeo.