Mustache 2.0

January 30, 2012 1:46 PM

Face detection has various applications. Easymustache.com is perhaps not one of the most practical ones.

Face Mustacher is a Javascript web application that detects faces in an image and applies a mustache to them. You can enter the URL of any image on the web into the box and click on the mustache button. Here is an example with the famous photo from the Solvay Conference. (Via the r/programming subreddit)

posted by tykky (66 comments total)

I love that even the eight-foot-tall invisible man lurking at the Solvay Conference gets tagged.
posted by shakespeherian at 1:48 PM on January 30, 2012 [3 favorites]

I think I know where they got their template mustache.
posted by logicpunk at 1:55 PM on January 30, 2012

I set it loose on a picture of my mustache and it overloaded from too much awesome.
posted by Ad hominem at 1:55 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

'Mustacher' is a word that should see more usage.
posted by shakespeherian at 1:56 PM on January 30, 2012

This is kind of amazing.
posted by Fizz at 1:56 PM on January 30, 2012

Here is a classroom of fifth graders with ~66% accuracy.
posted by maryr at 1:59 PM on January 30, 2012 [8 favorites]

You know who else...
posted by Foci for Analysis at 1:59 PM on January 30, 2012

Go directly to Pitchfork, do not pass go, etc...
posted by obscurator at 2:02 PM on January 30, 2012 [2 favorites]

It Worked! Double Mustache Fuck Yea!
posted by Ad hominem at 2:04 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

Mr Huxtable

Damnit Spock
posted by Foci for Analysis at 2:05 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

The real Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.

Bonus points:
1 - The only cheerleader without a stache.
5 - The six boobstaches.
25 - The neckstache.
posted by Mister Fabulous at 2:05 PM on January 30, 2012 [3 favorites]

I cannot make it work on either ponies or cats. I am disappoint.
posted by maryr at 2:06 PM on January 30, 2012

John, Paul and George need them, but Ringo's mustache is apparently sufficient.
posted by Homeboy Trouble at 2:07 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

is this thing on right?
posted by R. Schlock at 2:07 PM on January 30, 2012 [2 favorites]

My bearded face apparently breaks it, which either makes me sad, or simply reasserts my overwhelming manliness. I haven't decided which, yet.
posted by Dr.Enormous at 2:09 PM on January 30, 2012

I don't always wear a mustache, but when I do, I dye the fuck out of it.
posted by schleppo at 2:09 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

The classic test... yep, passes
posted by andorphin at 2:11 PM on January 30, 2012

Dr. Enormous, I believe that means the script has decided you are a very manly muppet.
posted by maryr at 2:12 PM on January 30, 2012

(oops)
posted by andorphin at 2:13 PM on January 30, 2012 [4 favorites]

Teen Wolf 2: The Wolfier!
posted by schleppo at 2:15 PM on January 30, 2012

This feels appropriate. The ones that mustache wrong feel like they are on purpose with those, at least. Though fine art photography doesn't seem to work all that well in general, maybe it's the black and white?

But could someone make a plugin for Chrome for this so I can just right click on an image and get the option to mustache it? That'd be great.
posted by NoraReed at 2:15 PM on January 30, 2012

So that's what Selleck would look like incognito.
posted by mazola at 2:16 PM on January 30, 2012

Google Hangouts has had similar functionality for a few months now (except over the holidays it was reindeer antlers and noses). It's fun when you leave the room and your mustache gets hung up on your chair.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 2:17 PM on January 30, 2012

Barack "Once There Was a Man" Obama

Biden, however, abides.
posted by dhartung at 2:19 PM on January 30, 2012

Awww, come on.
posted by mhum at 2:23 PM on January 30, 2012

I need to mash this up with my school's directory as soon as possible.
posted by BungaDunga at 2:26 PM on January 30, 2012

This works for me in neither Firefox nor Explorer. Firefox just shows the count saying it was loaded in 771 ms, and Explorer, "Loading image from web ..." In neither case is there an image.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 2:28 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

Although, weirdly, mhum's link works.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 2:29 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

Stinkin' Lincoln! Stinkin' Lincoln!

Dirty Douglas! Dirty Douglas!*
posted by mazola at 2:30 PM on January 30, 2012

Er... Douglas #1
posted by mazola at 2:33 PM on January 30, 2012

BTW, I had to pull these into Chrome to get the Javascript to stop ... stopping responding.

Family portrait? Somebody's hit puberty!

Ah, but Michelle alone is kinda dark bar scary.

Agree to this treaty or else!

... all processing has stopped at my end. Down?
posted by dhartung at 2:33 PM on January 30, 2012

Ah, but Michelle alone is kinda dark bar scary.

That really makes it looks like Jefferson is spying on her.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:35 PM on January 30, 2012

Yeah it does not work in IE 8, or iOS, it uses web workers which are not supported. It works for me in FF.
posted by Ad hominem at 2:36 PM on January 30, 2012

It works in Firefox for me but when it doesn't detect a face, it doesn't seem to give an error or anything, just loads the image normally. About a third of the images I've loaded in have come out mustacheless :(
posted by Gordafarin at 2:37 PM on January 30, 2012

CBC Toronto's news team just got a bunch more mustachier.
posted by scruss at 2:42 PM on January 30, 2012

This kid just shouldn't have a mustache. I'm just sayin' . . . .
posted by birdhaus at 2:43 PM on January 30, 2012

"Why oh why are they just staring at ME and chuckling, and not the slides?"
posted by obscurator at 2:43 PM on January 30, 2012

Feel free to crucify me for this.
posted by Jehan at 2:44 PM on January 30, 2012 [2 favorites]

Okay, everyone must now post their profile pic run through this. Mine's all sortsa special.
posted by scruss at 2:46 PM on January 30, 2012

Mister Fabulous -- are you messing with me? I am losing my mind! Which cheerleader doesn't have a stache? It's like an oddly erotic Where's Waldo...
posted by This_Will_Be_Good at 2:49 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

Yeah, my real facial hair seems to confuse it.
posted by brundlefly at 2:50 PM on January 30, 2012

Mister Fabulous -- are you messing with me?

Spoilers:

No stache: 2nd row from bottom, far left, "Heather"
Boobstaches:
1. 2nd row, 2nd from left, "Yipa."
2. 2nd row, dead center, redhead.
3. 3rd row, far right, named "Rashida"
4. Top row, 3rd from right, "Ashley"
5. Top row, 4th from right, "Maya"
6. Top row, 3rd from left, "Vandy"
7. The one I didn't originally see, 4th row, far left, "Monica"
8. The other one I didn't see, 4th row, 3rd from left, "Heath(?)"
Nickstache: 3rd row, far right, "Rashida"
posted by Mister Fabulous at 3:05 PM on January 30, 2012

Heather most certainly has a stache.
posted by shakespeherian at 3:08 PM on January 30, 2012

I think it varies from person to person. Heather is lacking a 'stache in my version, but Rashida doesn't have the neck 'stache she's supposed to.
posted by yeolcoatl at 3:12 PM on January 30, 2012

Feel free to crucify me for this.

I see you there, Thaddeus.
posted by The Bellman at 3:17 PM on January 30, 2012

Yeah, it must vary somehow from person to person as yeolcaoatl says, because Heather has a fairly well-aligned non-boob stache in mine as well. The only one that is close to stache-less in mine, is Monica in the back row, second from left, who has more of a chin stache.
posted by This_Will_Be_Good at 3:23 PM on January 30, 2012

A Softer Mustache

Six Seasons And A Mustache

Pretty Guardian Sailor Mustache

Stache Calibur IV

Mustache Effect
posted by NoraReed at 3:28 PM on January 30, 2012 [2 favorites]

Alternatively, could someone make it so you could put in a URL and it would stick mustaches over all the images? Baconator-style?
posted by NoraReed at 3:32 PM on January 30, 2012

Many involved in the assassination operation adopted secret identities.
posted by HeroZero at 3:40 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

Genius.
posted by ph00dz at 3:50 PM on January 30, 2012

Not so easy now, is it?

(previously)
posted by ymgve at 3:51 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

I was so hoping it would put it on the piece of paper he is holding too.
posted by gjc at 4:23 PM on January 30, 2012

This Warhol is now half-mustached (or half un-mustached?)
posted by obscurator at 4:37 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

Note the invisible sixth man.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:28 PM on January 30, 2012

Every year, in honour of Jamie's birthday...

Jamie's mustache would grow a metamustache.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:31 PM on January 30, 2012

This Warhol is now half-mustached (or half un-mustached?)

I always try to see the glass as half-mustached.
posted by HeroZero at 6:07 PM on January 30, 2012

Famous anchor-baby

Overall though, I'd have to say it's a pretty poor interpolater, which makes it still kind of funny.
This one made me laugh.
posted by Red Loop at 6:32 PM on January 30, 2012

Print and use: All about the Benjamins.
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:48 PM on January 30, 2012

I cannot believe that Mustachify has competition.

I was going to post a link to Mustachiness but it's down :(
posted by mkb at 6:54 PM on January 30, 2012

Precocious 'stache, dude.
posted by the young rope-rider at 6:55 PM on January 30, 2012

Sadly, a burning beard does not indicate a burning mustache.
posted by Turkey Glue at 7:58 PM on January 30, 2012

Being John Mustachelvich
posted by panaceanot at 8:01 PM on January 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

Also, this thread could use more Swanson.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:08 PM on January 30, 2012

Dadada
posted by Rhaomi at 12:37 PM on January 31, 2012

The most amazing author's photo, now improved.
posted by Panjandrum at 4:28 PM on January 31, 2012

This one worked out rather well.
posted by brundlefly at 2:39 PM on February 1, 2012