Israeli Software ‘Beautifies’ Ugly Faces

November 26, 2008 by frankls · Leave a Comment
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A group of Israeli computer scientists think they’ve developed a program that can beautify a human face based on the innate preferences humans have . As you can see from the “beautified” Mona Lisa there, they’ve failed. I could have done a better job in Microsoft Paint. “We were able to fit a mathematical model to this set of data that we’ve gathered, namely the images that we showed to people and their responses in terms of the beauty scores that they chose to give to each image,” said Lischinksi. Um, dude? Your mathematical model blows monster dino-dick. The team then applied the model to modify images so as to make them appear more attractive. They are now exploring a variety of potential commercial applications for the software, Lischinski said. “This is something we’re looking into,” he said. It remains to be seen whether women would simply use the improved image as a guide to more effective makeup application or whether people take it to a plastic surgeon and say: “Make me look like that.” Ladies, this is such garbage — you’re all beautiful just the way you are. Especially naked. And I mean that. Keep the pictures coming. Hit the jump for a real human face comparison.

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