Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness (SIGGRAPH 2008)

[cuiston]

at least the music in the end is awesome ;)

[projectilequestion]

This video makes me feel nihilistic and intimidated.

[halfaheartbongobongo]

in the last one, they change her from frowning, to a bit more smiling :)

[2ne1YGwinwin]

attractiveness estimating machine... hahaha that sounds so scifi fake! Its like saying lets find out using our toenail mooderleration estimation machine, which allows us to determine the mood of said specimen, i.e the toenail. science... <.<

[shalom1948hellyeah]

@2ne1YGwinwin no you dont even understand what the video is saying. basically all these studies take into account the preferences of LARGE NUMBERS of people, so obviously the most symmetrical faces will come out on top as the numbers are normalized

note that no machine is going to tell you what YOU find attractive but if you're talking about 100 random people and what face looks the best on average to the 100 then you can definitely do that.

[MissJessyeNorman]

I don't find any of the "after" photos attractive, and in some cases they're just downright creepy. They look like a hack artist with a very narrow view of beauty, or a robot applied a woefully simplistic system of rules to something infinitely complex. Any features that looked "ethnic" were removed, leaving the persons face looking unbalanced because their type of beauty can't be forced into the Hollywood mold. Really, this whole pursuit is sick!!

[mobubabe]

@MissJessyeNorman Offfcourse. Because ethnics are ugly!

[alehax27]

@MissJessyeNorman

For me it's the complete opposite. After photos were significantly more attractive in my opinion, except the very last one.

[adlsfreund]

some pictures look worse after processing than the real person, fail. anyway the effects of this program only reflect the tastes of a limited number of people, the ones who supplied the rating data, and there will always be exceptions, especially so the further you go away from the idealized and fake world of Hollywood and fashion magazines that seem to condition many people into preferring a specific appearance style chosen by the authors/owners

[AztecMerchant]

@adlsfreund Yeah a lot of the results just look more boring!

[boppy100]

Forget all the equations and maths....what they've done to the female faces is simply to make them more female...lips are plumped....chins are shortened, jawlines narrowed, eyes wider, noses are straighter and smaller. They have averaged everything out .

[primohomme]

Where can I download this program? It's awesome :D

[mcgrewrich]

OK so how do I download this and run it on a photo of me so I can make my beautified image be the one I use on social networking sites? Also, could you share your work with Facebook so they can automatically enhance the beauty of everyone's profile photos? Some of the people there could really use your help...

[jillllllybean]

Actually, the original face used in the Overview slide is prettier than the "after."

[bloodxalibi]

Interesting machine.

I think the most fascinating thing about average human faces, is the fact that all you have to do is change a VERY small amount of your face -- such as increasing the distance between mouth and nose, or making your brows symmetrical -- to achieve a much more "attractive" face.

[Galagoz1]

All you have to do is smile and fix your uni brow

[ChrissyAndKat]

too much math.

[cubicaljane]

Why does everyone have to be sized up!? This is sick and all about money!!!!Western society is reduced to plastic fake people.

[regisdrift]

Can I download this?

[SpoonsForks]

LOL SO MUCH EQUATIONS...

[anacrusisztc]

did they purposely choose ugly people for the study -.-

[bryceguy72]

N-dimensional vector-space my ass. They're using needlessly sophisticated, sesquipedialian and esoteric terminology to express relatively jejune and protomorphic ideas. Kind of like what I just did. Yeah, they're using big words for no good reason.

[jonessekid]

When I use "we" and "us", I am referring to society as a whole or at least the part that is trapped in the beauty lie. I am just happy with the way I look and with who i am. You didn't have to call me a looser, that just shows your lack of manners, range in vocabulary and basic reading comprehension. No need to waste any more of my time with this weapon targeted towards you consumer and beauty victims. (And when I say "you" I mean other people other than me, not specifically "you").

[avamilan]

Cool Software!!

[jceja24]

where can i get this program?

[moebiuz]

Now we need an uglyfication machine

[zzcn]

It's quite interesting research. And to these detractors, it is just image processing research, it's not about u are beautiful or not. that's your own problem.

[loveflcl]

Где можно эту прогу скачать кто нить знает??? Where i can download this program? anybody has a link???

[strawberrydream813]

it's like the pretty sister that i never had.... yeah, noo thanks

[ezequielBsAs]

You can try with a small nose, big eyes, small mouth but the beauty is still relative

[poonzor1]

I am very interested in this, i think it could have useful applications for someone considering plastic surgery. If you can run my image through this program, and note what features were changed, please contact me and I will pay the appropriate amount.

[9t5Gina2k7]

yay! a machine to tell us whats ugly about ourselves....

[chuckleslotz]

Yay now a program to make us feel even more shittier about ourselves!

[concoursboy]

@chuckleslotz you choose how you feel, Choose to feel happy and choose not to search out sadness unless you want to. But then choose not to feel shitty.. Oh well.

[boomtastic67]

VERY impressive

[321midnight]

Can someone please just be as amazed as I am that someone figured all this shit out?

[apokkalyps]

i don't suppose this is something we could download and play with?

[Yrhp8268]

No offense, but i still did not think any of the men in the examples shown looked very good, even AFTER their "beautification." Sorry, I guess most men are just so inherently ugly, even a "beautification" compter program can't help much.

[apokkalyps]

@Yrhp8268 keep in mind it is only fixing the facial strucure. it doesnt fix their awful haircut or bad facial hair. so afterwards they still look like slobs, just slobs with good bone structure

[highcollector]

I demand the release of this application to the public!

[miamibabii77]

if your gonna have plastic surgery this will help !

[eyhexs]

yes, physical attractiveness can be explained algoritmically; the human mind works on an instinctual level as far as that goes; now is just a matter of waiting for the medical sciences to catch up; until then, just wear a paper bag over your head, no one will notice

[FlameBlazers]

All of it is bullshit when people say it is our "inner values" that count the most. Pure bullshit. Now you can see this world is a fascist nightmare and those who have better genes are much more attractive than those you are left to crawl about with their ugly faces like crabs. And if you are honest to yourself, you will notice that your mind automatically attribute better human qualities to the faces on the right than on the left. Terrible, terrible cruel a world. Unjust by nature.

[Livibabyx]

this is sad

[pwiattitto]

racist dataset, white's only beautification engine. :-(

[cavok84]

@pwiattitto put the card away

[pwiattitto]

@cavok84 lol

[OBOGAN]

lol ,i need this tool for my face XD

[brandon9271]

I'd love to see what it would do with my picture! Attractiveness is actually quite scientific! Although, each person has their own "type" Chances are, all the people that you find attractive will have some similar attributes that can be measured. Unless you are one of those people that claim to not care about looks. In that case you're either desperate or you're a liar :)

[serious7231]

A few of these people actually look better without the enhancement. :D

[drakendrones]

OK!!! wat is the purpose of this software or program again??? I think all the subjects were normal/pretty (according to me) to start off with. Y do we need to distort n make things surreal!! This is serious brain f***!!! As tho v don't have enuff body-image issues!

[Reegatron]

Cyber Eugenics

[calumhm]

2:02

I preferred the original of this short haired girl

[theJohnnyOz]

is there any free application like this available for people to try out?

[670Kiester]

This is a tool for plastic surgeons, right?

People will also use it for their dating shots.

Ps - where can i get this app?

Cheers

[NeverevenStudios]

This one... too fat!

That one... too tall!

And you... TOO SYMMETRICAL!

[zairekrieger]

whaha this is too ridiculous for words!!

[jonessekid]

Great, another tool to make people feel like crap, increase consumerism of beauty products and plastic surgery. Or we can all just enhance are faces on the computer and lie to ourselves. Grrrrreat!

[knofs]

@jonessekid or instead of being a loser, you can use this information to prove how bullshit beauty is. anyone can be made to look beautiful as seen in this video. there for what we see in the media should not effect our self-esteem.

[mobubabe]

@jonessekid It means you're ugly?

[romero2k]

garbage, in the beginning, people try to land the best looking person they can get but then depending on how good or bad they look, they end up settling for something not what they wanted. that is unless ur rich, money makes everything better looking. thats the american way...haha...

[lesstv4me]

@romero2k with low self esteem pple don't try aiming high ever. Hence you can find some attractive girls with douches who aren't rich nor attractive. There are plenty of attractive girls who don't know it.

[gayisrael]

lol you can make the supermodel bar rafaeli look better?

[esiosan]

At 3:51 it is proven some people are so ugly they can't be fixed! Rofl!!!

[hardToSignUpHere]

she is not the ugliest person out of the set!

[artheart3001]

@esiosan I think the real problem was that the angle of her face wasn't centered.

[fantasmas9]

"In some cases, the beautification might be too strong, producing a result that less resembles the person in the input image"

That is to say, the person is really ugly.

[LocknLoad4815]

HAHAH! This is RIDICULOUS!

[Kafetka]

i 100% believe in marquardt face mask. it shows the same results. and it is amasing - that all pretty faces match it. maby not ideal. but the main features - eyes, lips, nose -100%. for example put monica bellucci or angelina jolie. so it is not a secret, that beauty is mathematics.

[Kafetka]

i think it works not 100% in plastic surgery. even i can change face into more attractive in photoshop. but the main thing and what they do - changing distance between eyes. . you can make nose shorter, but it not always work( i mean faces like sarah jessica parker's) unfortunatly plastic surgery can't move eyes(for now)

[busykidd]

@kafetka: that´s not true. they do perform craniofacial procedures with which they change the space between the eyes (for both too close together and too far apart eyes).

[Kafetka]

thanks busykidd, it's really interesting, i didn't know about that!

[gucker07]

Now we need this morph program for real life.

[daffydoug]

The computer enhancement is great. Unfortunately, the subjects are still stuck carrying around their real face!

[InesdeTordesillas]

cool! is that software available?

[SuntzuMocro]

people we must agree on one thing, most of time most of the guy tend to find a girl attractive and semi-unamisouly agree that girl is attractive, so that give me the "beauty is totally subjective " crap.

people just have to find them self beatifull, that's one, and second be happy with what you have and think of people less fortunate then you.

but dont tell me that facial attractiveness is 100% subjective.

[tillo2008]

so... this is for people with low self esteem that want to get offers from online dating services? Perhaps this is for digital animation technologies letting ugly people report the news again so we can get real news?

I don't get it. I also don't get why the #1 highschool grad gift for girls in the USA is breast implants.

While we're at it, we should tell our kids that noone is special, noone cares about you, and take what you want from people because they're never going to be there for you.

[nahnni]

Interesting, but what has it to do with reality?

[busykidd]

the computed faces could be used as templates for plastic surgeons.

[blablasometin8]

i saw a documentary about this sort of stuff and it showed the plastic surgeon who made the mask and used it as a template

[busykidd]

really? did you see it online or on tv?

[blablasometin8]

well it was for tv but i saw it online, i can get u the link if u want

[heckakay]

can i please have the link

[siangal07]

Hey, where can I download this software?

[faroreswind]

Wow its amazing how just a few tweaks can make an average face a knockout with a computer program.

Just goes to show how cool geometry can be! :D

[Khemrikhara]

Horrible.

"Hey, I have an idea; let's perpetuate the insecurities of people (especially young women) worldwide by showing them exactly what is wrong with their faces."

Anyone ever heard of inner beauty?

[tazatriste]

I think it's not about inner beauty. It's very important how physical beauty can really be measured, even when everybody says that beauty is something almost magic with no explanation.

this remembers me Marquardt beauty mask, but this software is one step beyond.

excellent work. I would wish to know it before we finish our reportage about beauty and social organization in Chile. Actually, I saw this video the same day when we publish the book at university.

[jfdhjgdh2010]

@Khemrikhara

inner beauty HA! HA! HA! that is shit. it's all about the outside you fucker. Who want's to date a whale or an ugly person lol! damn i'm happy that i am so great looking guy because i wouldn't know what to do if i was an ugly fucker who couldnt get pussy. thank god that didnt happen!

[LisergicoRojo]

u sound like a fucking idiot man, ull probably have ur "great looking" face punched beyond recognition for being such a retard

[3n17y]

Great! I wrote article about your invention... Can I use this word? :) OK. I have a question for you... When we can buy/use your application for our photos? ;D

[artprs]

It is not true that symmetric face is alway more beautiful. Subtle unbalance is more natural, more harmonious, and more attractive in human faces than absolute symmetry.

[MadsterV]

The criterion for beauty in this software is measured as ratings for chosen pictures from a focus group.

Different groups will favor different features. Most people favor simmetry.

It says everything you ask right in the video.

[artprs]

I am plastic surgeon Rheefrom South Korea. Is this program based on symmetry hypothesis or Phi mask or averageness hypothesis? Simple forcifying of masculinity or feminicity is not so reflectie of facial attractiveness and Phi mask is not appropriate for explaining facial attractiveness. I do want you to show reasonal or hypothetical background.

[purnasya]

Magila Gorila

[tunenas]

Physical attractiveness seems too complex in this model.

[CrystalicOxygen]

i wonder what i would do with "beautiful" people with very special facial features. For example Jonathan Rhys Meyers who has very "abnormal" facial features. i bet it would "normalize" him to make him look "even more beautiful" so first it wouldnt be him anymore, and second it would ruin the speciality in him so he would become way less gorgeous. so "unattractive" people would become prettier for someone (or the prog) but loose their characteristic beauty that others, real people, see in them.

[shooermagooer]

I know some gits so ugly it would break that machine HAHA!!

[hardToSignUpHere]

yeah the machine will go in flames, or might just launch a nuclear missile, provided the hardware option installed :p

[Zybergod]

This man said things.

[lancstony]

In other words it morphs a face to become more similar to the nearest face in the training set.

[MadsterV]

Almost. It morphs it to the nearest variation that is considered beautiful as defined by the training set.

[artprs]

Refer the article Ann Plast Surg. 2007 Aug;59(2):156-62

[MadsterV]

huh?

[liesxxpunks]

i'd rather see people that are real, nobody has to be perfect and nobody ís perfect. for little contrast and skin details photoshop is the easiest way to handle..

[ccchackalll]

Nobody has to be perfect, but hey, it would be better

[fanman1]

So these people are categorised as "ugly"?! Photoshop is also available...

[StarryNight022]

Vaya programita...XD

[jmm1233]

they also use they same method for cataloging you on a database ,

[TropicalTendencies]

Impressive.

[x8xalicex8x]

This is well fake!!! u can tell taht they got a normal imagine & then distorted it!! aha i mean look @ 3:56, that guys eyes cant be that close togeather lmaoooo

[knighthoff]

What's the point? Are you going to show the "less attractive" person's photo afterwards and say, "this is how you should look"? I'd be surprised if it didn't dent their esteem somewhat. What a pointless app. I've studied the social psychology that this bases its principles on. It's as scientific as the bible is on the creation of man. Come on, attractiveness is a highly subjective concept.

[nobradors]

creepy.

[marylokiya]

que bien esta este programa!!

por cierto , como se llama??? es para descargarmelo.

por favor contestad

[8RyoSan8]

Ke flipao. Ya mismo te lo dicen, y sobretodo para bajartelo XD

[chriszone]

es un programa en desarrollo, Siggraph es una conferencia donde van los desarrolladores de software relacionada a los gráficos para exponer los nuevos avances y programas de desarrollo que están realizando. De este tipo de estudios nacen las nuevas características que se le incorporan a otros softwares. No te extrañe que salga un filtro en Photoshop para embellecer personas.

[vicoar]

where can I download this app?

[chriszone]

es un programa en desarrollo, Siggraph es una conferencia donde van los desarrolladores de software relacionada a los gráficos para exponer los nuevos avances y programas de desarrollo que están realizando. De este tipo de estudios nacen las nuevas características que se le incorporan a otros softwares. No te extrañe que salga un filtro en Photoshop para embellecer personas.

[ccchackalll]

Yo creo que si a uno que pregunta en ingles, le contestas en español, mal vas

[Kevo216666]

I thought the beautification machine was going to blow up at 2:14.

[SiMX33]

Forehead stretching anyone?

[soufletyriwn]

hahahahahah just right my friend! you say it fine!

[lukessummer]

Hmm! ... what next?, give everybody blonde hair and blue eye's?

[Spinal83]

So when can we finally get a demo? I've been waiting to try this program for 2 years now! :P

[aniellod]

I'm too sexy for this app. Too sexy for this app.

[rodrigotrovao]

theres a download 4 trial versions?

[karlitogb]

i need now!

:P

[jonatasribeiro15]

I need one. lol