This is amazing. I think we should automatically apply it to all profile photos ;) - Paul Buchheit

Facial discrimination? - Jason

Impressive. - j1m

Can I get one for the body as well as the face? - Dion Almaer

Very interesting. Hope they post the download link soon so that we can all play with it. - Brady Brim-DeForest

It seems as if the main problem with most people in the examples shown is their forehead is too short or too narrow. Wonder if there's a subtle clue that big brains are beautiful there! :) - Lindsay

@Jason - that's an interesting concept. Would you be more likely to trust the girl on the left or right? Would you be more likely to talk to either one of them at a party (or more intimidated by either one?). - Lindsay

Right one looks more dumb... - philsmirnov

Notice that for all the women they soften the jaw, while squaring it for men. Everyone also gets a slightly thinner face and upturned almost smiling lips. - FFing Enigma

@SB yeah and the forehead adjustment... almost like there is a triangle with the forehead at the point and they flip it so the chin is the bottom of the triangle... weird. - Lindsay

They are different women! Blame Paul! : ) - Erhan Erdoğan

impressive - accexine

Lindsay: whenever sketching generic faces, the face starts as an inverted triangle and the eyes appear a third of the way down from the top of the forehead; lips and nose appear below and above (respectively) a line 1/3 up from the chin. Looks like these pictures are rearranged to meet that particular school of drawing. - FFing Enigma

That is interesting yet odd. Seems that the faces are slendered with the software. - Jim Goldstein from twhirl

I wonder what would come out of applying their algorithms to face of black or asian person? Different countries have different concepts of beauty. - arty

This technology should be made available in eye glasses, just imagine how much better your work day can be! - Claude Betancourt

Paul - Think you should definitely add the option. "Click here to be beautiful without the expense of plastic surgery! .... and you may even get more 'Likey's" :)" - Charlie Anzman

Some of the stuff coming out of Siggraph this year is really freaky. How about combining this with the automatic video editing stuff? ;) - Joe Beda

without a doubt amazing. It's incredible how subtle the changes are yet massive difference. - Zee.

Huh, that's pretty crazy. Creepy, but cool. :) - felix

I haven't read the paper, but I wonder if it adapts to different notions of "attractive" (that changes from culture to culture ...) - Rui Pires

+1 @Claude I was thinking the same thing! Incorporate this software in wearable monitor glasses, and the whole world would be beautiful! I'll bet we can look for these on the shelves in the U.S. just before November. Social media and reality enhancement software have put Winston Smith out of a job. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

do i sense another manga-style meme starting? - anna sauce

So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean? - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

You know, if these guys had gotten together with the realtime video+photo enhancement folks and approached the Beijing Olympic Comittee then that singing girl in the opening ceremonies might not have had to been replaced with a body double. (Yeah, I just brought three of this week's biggest memes together. I'll be here all week.) - Kevin Fox

The artist proportions were laid out by the Greeks as the perfect human, that's not being used here. This beautification engine, I think, builds on top of a previous study where some students tried to mathematically identify attractiveness. They had participants rate the attractiveness of head shots from yearbooks. What they found was there was a high correlation b/w the geometrically "average" face and high attraction. That "average" is based on the proportions of the di - xero

stances between the individual elements of the face and their relative sizes. IIRC the software adjusts elements so they statistically/geometrically complement each other. It's not actually working toward a golden set of proportions, but a set of proportions appropriate for the individual as defined by the masses. I wouldn't think of it as "facial discrimination" so much as "deviation from ones potential". - xero

I'm waiting for the first Facebook application that automatically enhances your profile picture like this. Every social network should run this on the avatars. Beautiful people! - Benedikt Koehler

Can you imagine the controversy if dating sites got a hold of this? - xero

@paul automatically apply it to all profile photos, huh? are you sure you ready for results? check my picture - try to see wonderful cossacks writing infamous letter to Turkish Sultan :) - A. T.

I wonder if they'll turn Mickey Mouse into Mighty Mouse - Dave Q

@Lindsay; A)Maybe/? 1=Left 2=Right 3=N/A - Jason

this will have a lot of practical applications to create a (virtual) world of beautiful (or more acceptable facially) people. - Apostolos Tsompanopoulos

Just a complicated high tech implementation of beer goggles. - Hayes Haugen

Chris' comment is sooo tempting - Charlie Anzman

This is what came up as the top Google hit for paul buchheit friendfeed. - Spidra Webster

I just read the first comment and may I ask why we should apply it automatically to all profile pictures??? Who are we gonna kid that way?! - ambidextrous

it's long gone. - Joe The Sausage

It's down :( - Burcu Dogan

cannot open this link,404 is there~ - 阿石