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Computer to redefine human beauty
By siliconindia
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Friday, 10 October 2008, 23:51 IST
Bangalore: The computer will now decide upon the perfect look of anyone. Through a mathematical formula, "beautification" software developed by Tommer Leyvand with three others at Israel's Tel Aviv University shall enable the alteration of the original form into a theoretically more attractive version by restructuring the geometrical lines of the face.
The program was designed taking into consideration the responses of 68 men and women, aged 25 to 40, from Israel and Germany, who viewed photographs of white male and female faces and picked the most attractive ones. The scientists took in the response and applied an algorithm involving 234 measurements between facial features, including the distances between lips and chin, the forehead and the eyes, or between the eyes. Finally, a program is shaped for the computer to o determine, for each individual face, the most attractive set of distances and then choose the ideal closest to the original face. They sharpened the training process by scanning photographs of 92 women and 33 men through the engine, making it adapt to create perfect versions of each.
However, a machine working on the beauty is definitely open to qualms regarding the basis on which it is quantified. Psychologists opine that determination of the ideal appearance being influenced by the images popped in media cannot be the ideal image. Infact for some the redefining lines are less striking and it is the irregular beauty that can score more in real sense. Martina Eckstut, an account executive who volunteered to be photographed and have her image beautified by Leyvand's computer program said, "I think the after picture looks great, but it doesn�t really look like me at all," she said. "I would like to keep my original face."
