Introduction

It's pretty hard to start labeling photos of yourself with the proper coordinates if you don't know anything about Matlab and you're not willing to learn. My project is a web-application that allows anyone to upload his/her photo for the benefit of later computing and getting funny pictures.

The big picture

For a couple of days, I'll host the project on my laptop, Jubileum.

My project basically combines:

• a HTML file uploader with post-processing in PHP
• a Java program for labelling photos (source-code)
• two CGI scripts in Perl meant to write files on the server (not so easy afterall !)
• a collection of files on the disk, that store the uploaded photos and the corresponding feature points
• a couple of Matlab scripts and functions to demonstrate easy processing of image on the server-side:
  1. The first one creates a funny picture by morphing the uploaded photo into some other photo (from the database)
  2. The second script computes the average faces
• two result webpages, containing the average female or male stored in the "database".

Details

• In the end, I can see that more than half of the time I spent on the project was doing Integration . Getting Java, PHP, Matlab and Perl to work together is not trivial, but it can be done.
• In order for images in the database to be consistent, I resized them all to 500x500. And even with this size, Matlab takes a while to compute the funny-picture morph
• I included all the files we used this semester for Project 3, and now we have a small-to-medium dataset.
• You can play around with the feature points to get interesting caricatures :)
• The system is easily extendable by modifying the existing Matlab scripts or the way the programs currently work.

A photo is worth 1000 words:)

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