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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. dating sites will love this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder how soon they will be offering the "attractiveness improvement" service to the photos of their subscribers. I don't think they have enough CPU power to improve mine, though.

  2. Strange 3D photo pairs by gznork26 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I rotated the pairs of adjusted faces so they were left to right (and the faces were on their sides), and defocused my eyes as if I was looking at a 3D stereo pair of pictures to see what would happen. The slight differences made the portraits appear to me as if they had been photographed in 3D. The places that had been changed were subtly evident as a misalignment -- in the eyes of some, for example. I realize this is a fudged 3D effect, but might there be some use for it?

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  3. Wow. No, really, wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'll never trust an image or video ever again. Never. Ever. Make sure you watch the "enhance video of a static scene" clip.

  4. Re:So in summary by mobby_6kl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can see this tool becoming very popular with the Myspace crowd once they realize the limitations of the current "hold camera above head level" method.

  5. Re:So in summary by grantek · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Also notice the eyes dropped in most of the touched-up photos, and were rotated to sit horizontally - interesting to look at, I'd like to see what 'designer' plastic surgeons would have to say about that