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Some Eye-Popping Research From Siggraph

Posted by kdawson on from the let's-face-it dept.

jamie found links to a discriminating selection of Siggraph papers at waxy.org. Among the more captivating: automatically improving the attractiveness of faces in portraits; automatic substitution of similar faces into photographs (with potential applications such as a privacy-enhanced Google Street View); and using still photographs to enhance video of a static scene.

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  1. I sent them a pic of my face to be touched up by ProteusQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    All I got back was an email that read "ROTFLMAO!"

    1. Re:I sent them a pic of my face to be touched up by Zaiff+Urgulbunger · · Score: 5, Funny

      I tried it, and I got floating point error.
      :O

  2. Complicated Software by Joebert · · Score: 4, Funny

    Once again someone's trying to write a bloated piece of software to overcharge for something our systems already do.

    See the following example for how I was able to increase the attractiveness of an already attractive Hooters girl using only Microsoft Paint. (exported via Fireworks for filesize optimization)

    http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/9474/hooters4si8.jpg

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