How to program a face morpher application?

Question

I would like to write a kind of image editor in which you could post photos of people and morph them, for example, with the effects of “pinch” and “punch”, and add things like hair or change the color of their skin. The thing is, I don’t know where to start ... is there a framework for manipulating images that focus on these tasks that I am looking for? Or should I take some book with image manipulation algorithms and write some .Net procedures? Thanks for your input!

Answer 1

If you do not know where to start, you should start at a bookstore. Buy a book or two about computer graphics and geometry theory. This can take a long time until you program it yourself, and not just "tell me what to write there, I don’t need to understand what I am writing."

Some links:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~gfx/courses/2004/Intro.Fall.04/handouts/03-morph.pdf http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall00/ cs426 / lectures / composite / composite.pdf http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1950-g/asgn/proj5/

I think these pages describe quite well how to do this. Look there if you want to learn it and write your own implementation.