Or rather, the answer is "no" right now, but I will bet you $500 that it'll be "yes" within ... hm ... 2 years max. And if I lower my bet to $100, I'll do 1 year max.
Let's just say it's a very lucrative, very active area of research.
One observation: facial detection gives you landmarks, and those landmarks are essentially UVs for a texture. So if you do that process repeatedly, and rotate the face slightly using latent directions, then you can back-project the result onto a 2D texture.
Very very cool. I could see this being intergrated into something like fortnight in the very near future.
If I was a better coder I'd being trying to get an Epic Grant for this. I can't imagine getting a full blown model would take more than a few hundred thousand
