At least once a week I upload a new photo to my personal ad, only to have it cropped to the point where you can count my nose hairs. Dating sites are forcing people to display photos without much context. I often wonder if a person is dancing, in bed or on the beach because the auto-crop feature has butchered the photo. Conversely, the person is so far away that it could be Andy Rooney back there.
Tommer Leyvand of Tel Aviv University in Israel has created a program which applies an algorithm that adjusts a photo’s facial features to make people appear more attractive. The software was built on top of a previous project which measured the attractiveness of people’s photos and measured the attributes of the “beauty function.”
I would gladly pay a few extra bucks to look better in my photos, sign me up! Just think of the dismay when I show up, the crestfallen look in my date’s eyes when they see the non-botox shooting, up-till-2am receding hairline that is me.
Tommer was gracious enough to perform digital surgery on a photo of me which I will post when received.
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