Nov 26 2008Israeli Software 'Beautifies' Ugly Faces
A group of Israeli computer scientists think they've developed a program that can beautify a human face based on the innate preferences humans have. As you can see from the "beautified" Mona Lisa there, they've failed. I could have done a better job in Microsoft Paint.
"We were able to fit a mathematical model to this set of data that we've gathered, namely the images that we showed to people and their responses in terms of the beauty scores that they chose to give to each image," said Lischinksi.
Um, dude? Your mathematical model blows monster dino-dick.
The team then applied the model to modify images so as to make them appear more attractive. They are now exploring a variety of potential commercial applications for the software, Lischinski said."This is something we're looking into," he said. It remains to be seen whether women would simply use the improved image as a guide to more effective makeup application or whether people take it to a plastic surgeon and say: "Make me look like that."
Ladies, this is such garbage -- you're all beautiful just the way you are. Especially naked. And I mean that.
Keep the pictures coming.
Hit the jump for a real human face comparison.
Israelis develop software to improve your looks [reuters]
Thanks to malcom, who dates supermodels, but only because they're rich and he doesn't like to work.
Reader Comments
1. Madgame - November 26, 2008 1:58 PM
This has been already invented - it's called ALCOHOL.
2. Torse - November 26, 2008 1:59 PM
Blowing monster dino-dick may still be an improvement on some people...
3. trevor - November 26, 2008 1:59 PM
FIRST!!!
this is awesome haha but not the painting version
4. che-che - November 26, 2008 2:03 PM
so what it did was hit the auto levels on photoshop and bump the saturation a bit. then grabbed the transfom tool. then squashed her head to make it slender...lame. personally i liked the original girl. i like round heads. like pinching the cheeks!
5. smurfdude50 - November 26, 2008 2:04 PM
Attractive to Israelis probably, but yeesh they're still ugly as f***.
6. Boost - November 26, 2008 2:08 PM
@3 You idiot.
Yea, that's terrible. Even the real one isn't an upgrade.
7. Daisy - November 26, 2008 2:09 PM
FAKE FAKE FAKE TOTAL FAAAAAAKKKEEEE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadows are all wrong.
This is exactly like the scene from the movie Never Back Down where Max gets butt-ass wasted & does Stiflers mom in Baja's room after eating cocaine laced star wars puppets & some ecstasy he got from Pat Sajak. Baja found out about this when she saw a link to the live webcam feed in a wheel of fortune chatroom she was talking on downstairs when this all happened & freaked out by getting naked & running all the way to Del Taco covering herself with a cardboard box.
8. Master of Disaster - November 26, 2008 2:18 PM
I think the fake Daisy is just a tad funnier than the real one. Atleast they're inventive. Sorta. Not really. F*** you fake daisy. F*** you real daisy. F*** you daisy duck.
9. CaptainMorgan - November 26, 2008 2:18 PM
Nothing like a bunch of pasty cellar dwelling computer nerds to comment on what makes people look better. #1 said alcohol. I say it's the light switch.
10. Thumperchica - November 26, 2008 2:21 PM
We already have airbrushing...
This is redunant and lame...
11. yaya - November 26, 2008 2:23 PM
all they did was make the fat girl not fat.
12. Mia - November 26, 2008 2:27 PM
I think *you* are beautiful, Geekologie writer.
Oh, I saw a Link plushie at the mall downtown yesterday and thought of you!
*scratches head* Am I an internet stalker now?
13. PLEEEZE! - November 26, 2008 2:32 PM
Beauty is subjective. I personally find that most super models appear contrived. Au natural ist sehr besser!
14. hedgehog - November 26, 2008 2:36 PM
That after-mona-lisa looks scary ugly
15. GRAMMARNAZI - November 26, 2008 2:48 PM
Ma' baby... Mona-Lisa... is like a duck
She likes to cuddle
And she likes to......cuddle some more.
16. Carol - November 26, 2008 2:53 PM
She looks worse in the after photo and fine in the before one.
She looks like a man after.
17. Hannukah Montana - November 26, 2008 2:56 PM
i NEED that thing! I gotta upgrade and pimp my myspace page.
I gotta look stunning and sharp for the pervs.
18. trevor - November 26, 2008 3:00 PM
@6 lol i swear there was 0 comments when i went to post that :P these poeple are vultures!
19. Jazzman - November 26, 2008 3:17 PM
Ummm... can someone please show me options 3... both of those gurls (fake or not) are fugly!!! I wouldn't ask for head even if it was YOUR pecker!!!
20. monkey gobble - November 26, 2008 3:28 PM
where's the rag? and the dot, you know the one they scratch off to see if they've won a 7-eleven?
21. Farva's Twin - November 26, 2008 3:33 PM
The hosebag always tries to pretty herself up by rubbing her chin against my nuts. It works, until they bust at least.
22. Jeff - November 26, 2008 3:41 PM
The real woman on the left looks fine. The "woman" on the right has a five head and a Jay Leno chin. And the Mona Lisa......wow....
Epic fail.
23. Tina - November 26, 2008 3:41 PM
In both pics they look worse! Isn't there a button where I can select, "look like megan fox" and then hit GO? Now that's a machine that's worth it
24. egohavoc - November 26, 2008 3:42 PM
is it me or does this thing make women look like men?
25. Tina - November 26, 2008 3:43 PM
In both pics they look worse! Isn't there a button where I can select, "look like megan fox" and then hit GO? Now that's a machine that's worth it
26. QUASIMODEM - November 26, 2008 3:47 PM
Yeah, well, if it's Israeli software it's probably just going to give the subject massive noses, enormous thick black eyebrows, armoured four-by-fours and automatic rifles with which to shoot children. And bulldoze their homes.
27. big brown - November 26, 2008 3:54 PM
i think they found a way to make people look freaking fugly, not make them beautiful
28. dliup - November 26, 2008 3:57 PM
I wonder how it would work on the FUGLY GIRLFRIEND EPIC FAIL THREAD?
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=111777031
GW, please give it a try and post it!
29. dliup - November 26, 2008 3:58 PM
Doh! That thread has been removed
=(
30. dliup - November 26, 2008 4:13 PM
Actually it's in the cache of a certain search engine!!! OMG those pictures... the horror...
31. Smile - November 26, 2008 4:15 PM
I thought for jews to make a girl beautiful, you have to cover her with money?
32. DIETIRISH - November 26, 2008 4:17 PM
if it worked (it doesn't) whats the point, and also why does the real person have a 40 foot forehead now? FAIL!
33. Blopit - November 26, 2008 4:22 PM
howd you get my girlfriends pic? How many of you were jaking off to mona lisa's 'beautified' face? and this has been done before just take a look at this vid a must watch-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOBMbHbXVOg
LLCGW
LLCB
34. Alli - November 26, 2008 4:29 PM
Cover their heads with a tablecloth, isn't that what they do in Israel?
35. Elmo - November 26, 2008 4:34 PM
UHHHM where's the before and after pics???
they're all so fugtastic
36. Mike Hawk - November 26, 2008 5:33 PM
Yes, this girl will take the results to her plastic surgeon, ask him to shrink her eyes, saw her face in half, remove an inch or so of skull to bring them closer together, make her nose fatter, then tell her a joke thats just a little funny so she can almost smile. I think these guys are on to something.
37. suckmycomment - November 26, 2008 8:13 PM
GIANT FOREHEADS ARE SEXY??????!!!!!!!
38. blergh - November 27, 2008 9:00 AM
man...the second blond bitch just looks like a man!
39. Clifurd - November 27, 2008 11:55 AM
OK the picture on the RIGHT (the blond) is the real picture and the one on the left has been Digitally Stretched out. So I'm pretty sure they are lying their asses off. It's fake guys.
40. hellboy - November 28, 2008 10:59 PM
First pic: Butterface
Second pic: Butterface
I'd hit either one.
41. Angel - November 29, 2008 1:34 AM
Man, a program that makes all woman to look like my girl
42. Israel - November 29, 2008 1:48 AM
The f***ing Jews.
Now they're trying to sell Mona Baby for 30 bucks.
You guys are great marketing guys.
You sold the the Lord Jesus for 30 bucks
and now your selling the fake Mona Lisa online.
You should probably contact fake daisy.
43. JewHater - November 29, 2008 9:59 AM
awesome - a tool that makes people look like jews
that's a much better investment than solving human rights atrocities
I'd much rather look at people with eyes too close together, big noses and a obnoxious sense of righteousness than have peace
44. Dr.Death - November 30, 2008 3:44 AM
i want to "beautify" my ass
45. GS_Akhtar - November 30, 2008 5:21 PM
I think a bit reason for the Arab-Jew conflict is really the unattractiveness of the Jewish people. Honestly!
We Muslims have been kicked around and oppressed by many Europeans but generally they have been attractive. The English, French, Germans et al. all have their share of beauties!!!!
Jews on the other hand are fugly- the only good looking Jews have some Gentile-blood. I have Jewish friends and know many Jews but they look so ugly generally speaking! The eyes and noses are so bad- they look like vampires. Honestly, my next-dr neighbour here in Ottawa is Jewish, I knew that the first time I saw him- he looked like an UGLY-VERSION of Jackie Mason. God that is UGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
46. fred - December 1, 2008 4:47 PM
lol, why then bag head all your women?
something to hide....
47. fred willard - November 11, 2009 2:55 PM
It's hardly surprising that the ugliest people in the world have invented software like this. Most Israelis are physically repulsive. They aren't much better on the inside either...