A Digital Beauty Machine

clipped from www.hindu.com A beauty machine 'that makes average face a knockout' Washington (PTI): Researchers have built what they claim is a beauty machine that, with just the press of a button, can turn a picture of an ordinary face into that of a cover model. "Beauty, contrary to what most people think, is not simply in the eye of the beholder. With the aid of computers, attractiveness can be objectified and boiled down to a function of mathematical distances or ratios. "This function is the basis for the beauty machine," lead researcher Prof Daniel Cohen-Or of Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Sciences said. clipped from www.sciencedaily.com 'Beauty Machine' Makes Average Face A Knockout With A Single Click Samples of photographs manipulated by TAU's "Beauty Machine." Original photographs in top row; manipulated photographs in bottom row. clipped from www.youtube.com clipped from www.cs.tau.ac.il Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness Tommer Leyvand, Daniel Cohen-Or, Gideon Dror and Dani Lischinski clipped from www.eurekalert.org Prof. Daniel Cohen-Or, Tel Aviv University.

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