Digitize beauty

Detected an interesting note - scientists from the University of Tel Aviv ( Tel Aviv University ) have created a program that in the photo makes the face of any person almost perfect.

“Beauty Machine” (“Beauty Machine”) uses a special algorithm to convert the image of an ordinary person into a “cover photo”. During the conversion of the entered photo, the algorithm calculates the ratio of certain parameters of the person represented (for example, the width of the nose, chin, the distance between the eyes). The program then slightly adjusts the image in the photo to make the face more desirable. What is nice, while it is not too different from the original and the person can be found even on the edited photo.

To create the program, scientists polled 68 men and women from Germany and Israel (aged 25 to 40 years). They were asked to rate the attractiveness of the faces of 93 people on a scale from 1 to 7 points. These "glasses" were entered into the database and compared with 250 different parameters of human faces. Here is the result of the treatment of men's faces:

(photo Tel Aviv University)

Now the Israelis predict that over time, the program can be “sewn” directly into digital cameras that can instantly edit pictures, and a person will never see an unphotogenic result. In addition, the creators are confident - their offspring will soon be useful to plastic surgeons and publishers of fashion magazines. A 5-minute video illustrates the processing in action:
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“ Beauty is not so controversial ,” says Professor Daniel Cohen-Or. “ It is also amenable to mathematical description, like many other things in this life. There are generally accepted ideas about what is beautiful and what is not. that are supported by most people . "

" I will not say that it is so strong in the understanding of beauty, but for us each of the persons represented in the work was only a set of numbers, " he adds in a university press release.

When the program will appear in the mass sale is not yet known.

(illustration Tel Aviv University)