Beauty Through Bits

Digital technology can apparently do almost anything including beautifying you. A group of researchers has developed an automated Digital Face Beautification system. They explain that “given a frontal photograph of a face (a portrait), our method automatically increases the predicted attractiveness rating of the face. 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.”