One more application introduced at the SIGGRAPH conference in Boston !
After the image deblurrer and the 3D generation, here is an algorithm which is capable to enhance the appearance of a human face in a photograph within a few minutes.

Researchers of the University of Tel Aviv in Israel developed the "digital beautification" algorithm. A treatment which (caution!) does not make substantial changes to the appearance of a person but make subtle alterations to the photograph of a face in order to make the person appear more attractive.

The researchers, Tommer Leyvand et Yael Eisenthal, have created a set of rules on attractiveness for a software program, based on how people rated the appearance of faces in approximately 200 photographs. The software analyzed the images to measure distances, ratios, etc. another program was developed to apply the rules created by the first one.

The example is not Heidi Klum.

Source: NewScientistTech, two weeks ago.