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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. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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