Want to see a beautiful new you? Or perhaps see yourself turn into a monster?
Either of those is possible at a Web site developed by the Canadian branch of Irvine-based Allergan, which makes Botox and Juvederm wrinkle-fighting injections.
If you visit the Juvederm Revitalizer page of the www.juvederm.ca Web site, you can upload a photo of yourself, choose the areas of your face you’d like treated, and then see the results – for better or for worse.
For faces with some wrinkles, the software often works as intended. It can produce a new image with shallower wrinkles, higher eyebrows and slightly fuller lips. The samples above are typical results, showing how the site transformed my photo. (Above left is my photo from a few years ago. Above right is the same photo, transformed subtly to simulate cosmetic treatments, most notably the shallower folds between my nose and my mouth.)
Occasionally the software analyzes the photo incorrectly and produces a strange new look. (See below.) Or it can also be tricked into producing monstrous new faces, which is what happens if you repeatedly feed the Revitalizer’s “after” photos back into the program.
The Juvederm Revitalizer software is based on so-called Modiface technology created by Dr. Parham Aarabi, the head of the University of Toronto’s Artificial Perception Laboratory.
If you’d like to play around with this software, why no enter the “Make Yourself a Monster” contest on my Tech Playground page?
