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Someone Combined Hundreds Of Faces To Determine The Average Look Of Top Professional Athletes
If you ever wondered what characteristics elite athletes share, redditor osmutiar has the answer. He has acquired datasets of portraits of top-class sportspeople and has developed a set of algorithms that ‘draw’ the average face, and it’s messing with peoples’ minds.
With his posts accumulating tens of thousands of upvotes on reddit, osmutiar has determined the typical look of top male tennis players, female and male football players, professional golfers, and NBA stars.
“Imagine you have a set of images for professional golfers with holes punched on both their eyeballs and mouth,” he explains the process. “Now you are asked to place those pictures like stacking dominos on the floor so that you can align holes on all of the pictures. How will you do it? Analogous to what you’d probably do is the Affine Transform in image processing. After aligning images, it is basically just the average value of each pixel.”
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Top 130 female soccer players averaged (left) and top 300 male soccer players averaged (right)
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What do you think ?
Krista Leary 7 years ago
Wait....**141** faces of top **130** female soccer players averaged (left) and 183 faces of top 300 male soccer players averaged (right) How many female soccer players have more than ONE face?
Katie Smith 7 years ago
You could do this with actors in Hollywood, too. Hollywood has a type for sure.
Kira Thesloth 7 years ago
You're right, & the average hollywood look is usually very unattractive to me. They just get a lot of hype & people flock after they've seen the face a few times because as a species, we like recognizable faces. I like Sam Huegan though, he's the most handsome I've seen in a while. Outlander is annoying these says but I can watch Sam Huegan.
Load More Replies... Krista Leary 7 years ago
Wait....**141** faces of top **130** female soccer players averaged (left) and 183 faces of top 300 male soccer players averaged (right) How many female soccer players have more than ONE face?
Katie Smith 7 years ago
You could do this with actors in Hollywood, too. Hollywood has a type for sure.
Kira Thesloth 7 years ago
You're right, & the average hollywood look is usually very unattractive to me. They just get a lot of hype & people flock after they've seen the face a few times because as a species, we like recognizable faces. I like Sam Huegan though, he's the most handsome I've seen in a while. Outlander is annoying these says but I can watch Sam Huegan.
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