MakeMeBabies.com Gets Publicity

MakeMeBabies.com, an innovative entertainment project of Luxand, Inc. in cooperation with Goldfinger Applications, gets featured on Globo, a Brazilian TV channel. Universal Pictures uses technologies that empower the project for the making of The Incredible Hulk promotional Web site, hulkerizer.com. MakeMeBabies.com gets overwhelming publicity, receiving 300,000 unique visitors in just one day.

About MakeMeBabies.com

MakeMeBabies.com is a brand-new entertainment service offered by Luxand at no charge to the end-users. Using sophisticated facial recognition and analysis technologies, MakeMeBabies.com creates simulated pictures babies' faces from a pair of facial photos. The new technology provides high entertainment value by making it possible to peek into the future and seeing the possibilities. MakeMeBabies.com allows using any pair of pictures to generate a baby face, with celebrity photos being a popular option.

The technology that empowers the new service is at its second generation, providing the same high-quality pictures of babies no matter the quality or resolution of the original parents' photos. The second-generation technology does not simply morph one photograph into another. Instead, it recognizes characteristic features of the two faces, and re-creates a picture of a baby by applying mathematical transformations to the features detected. This allows getting a quality color picture of a baby even if one or both pictures of the parents are black-and-white, low-resolution or severely compressed.

About Luxand

Incorporated in 2005, Luxand is a privately held hi-tech company that offers a broad range of consumer and industrial solutions facilitating facial feature recognition and morphing. Serving general public and online entertainment industry, the company makes its technologies widely available. Its facial recognition and morphing technologies are used in a number of online entertainment portals, chat rooms and movie Web sites around the world.