Roland sez:
During last Siggraph, researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany showed a software they use to reconstruct human faces over skulls found by the police. New Scientist published "Animation lets murder victims have final say" on this work about two weeks ago with a nice illustration, "How the dead can express themselves." In "Skulls gain virtual faces," Technology Research News gives additional details. So how does this work? "The researchers' software allows users to attach markers, or landmarks, to a three-dimensional skull model generated from a laser scan of a skull. The landmarks are correlated with statistical tissue depth measurements in order to provide reference points for the software to generate muscles and skin for the mo del." This summary contains more details and references, including an illustration of a face reconstruction process.
