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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. Woz-inator by blue+l0g1c · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Decidedly a step up from the software their rivals wrote to make people look more like Steve Wozniak. *shiver*

  2. Enhanced video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The video enhanced by photographs was pretty amazing. NBC will probably be interested in getting their hands on this to "enhance" the next Olympic games.

  3. FINALLY! by Albert+Sandberg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    slashdot can add avatars!