Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness (SIGGRAPH 2008)

Video illustrating the SIGGRAPH 2008 paper. A data-driven approach to the challenging problem of enhancing the aesthetic appeal (or the attractiveness) of human faces in frontal photographs (portraits), while maintaining close similarity with the original.

http://www.leyvand.com/research/beautification2008/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• beautification
• facial
• attractiveness
• SIGGRAPH

[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!

[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...

[halfaheartbongobongo]

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

[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.

[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... <.<

[alehax27]

@MissJessyeNorman

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

[mobubabe]

@MissJessyeNorman Offfcourse. Because ethnics are ugly!

[mobubabe]

@jonessekid It means you're ugly?

[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!!

[AztecMerchant]

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

[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