digital face beautification
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Lukas Zinnagl pointed me to the works of Tommer Leyvand (graduated from Tel-Aviv University, now on Microsoft’s Xbox-360 team) and the Digital Face Beautification-tool he’s working on together with others. unlike the everyday photoshop-jobs we all became so used to, Tommer’s approach is to - automatically - apply only as subtle manipulation as possible, yet achieve a significant increase in “predicted attractiveness-ratings”:
The main challenge is to achieve this goal while introducing only minute, subtle modifications to the original image, such that the resulting “beautified” face maintains a strong, unmistakable similarity to the original [...] The effectiveness of the proposed method was experimentally validated by a group of test subjects who consistently rated the modified faces as more attractive than the original ones.
