Some Eye-Popping Research From Siggraph

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.

Ye have a butt like a sheep,

[Anonymous Coward]

I like sheep.

I sent them a pic of my face to be touched up

[ProteusQ]

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

Re:dating sites will love this

[EdIII]

Why the hell would I need their services at all? I always just send a picture of Fabio like normal people do.

One Possible Use

[HeavensBlade23]

This will save porn companies a bundle...

Re:So in summary

[Anonymous Coward]

My body does this automatically.

For instance, if I notice a pimple on the left part of my face, almost 90% of the time, I will have one on the same spot on the right!!

Pure genius

[syousef]

We took this spectacularly attractive blonde chick and wrote software that "automatically" turned her neutral facial expression (or slight scowl) into a smile. While we were at it we improved the symmetry of her face. Now she's gorgeous! We're brilliant!

But that's not all. We also took this African American guy and automatically plugged in a different African American guy's face that had the exact same pose. We're Gods I tell you!

Re:dating sites will love this

[rhyder128k]

I'm holding out for the portable version but I suppose that won't arrive without some serious improvements in holographic projection tech.
For the reverse process (to make other people look more attractive), I've developed my own tech. I call it Beneficial Ephemeral Eye Reticulation googles. Basically, a pair of B.E.E.R. Googles make even the attendees of a Linux kernel hacking conference look aesthetically acceptable. If only I could make the effect a lasting one...

Re:I sent them a pic of my face to be touched up

[Zaiff Urgulbunger]

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

Digital beer goggles.

[Rufty]

Now she can look as good the morning after as she did the night before!

Complicated Software

[Joebert]

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 [imageshack.us]