a friend asked me to play with @meitu_kr (app) because she wants me to explain what filters are applied / if any are deep learning related

this retouching is CRAZY 😳

📃: Facial skin beautification via sparse representation over learned layer dictionary ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/77275…
✨💄The company has an entire research team dead-focused on "beautifying" images/video (MTLab: Meitu Imaging and Vision Lab), and a slew of academic publications: mtlab.meitu.com/en/article

👉 It also looks like they'll be releasing an API / SDK soon: mtlab.meitu.com/en/apply
😳 This is the creepiest thing I have ever done. You can change jaw shape, eye size, chin point - everything. It feels very "mirror mirror on the wall"-y.

When your phone camera is showing you a face that isn't your own, what kind of distortion does that introduce in real life?
🙍‍♀️Depersonalization disorders are described as feeling disconnected or detached from one's self - and they often manifest as failing to recognize one’s own image in a mirror, as if it was a stranger.

I wonder if there's an uptick in DPD + body dysmorphia for folks using the app?
📰 Timely: "Selfies—Living in the Era of Filtered Photographs", from JAMA (Nov/Dec 2018).

"A new phenomenon, dubbed '@Snapchat dysmorphia,' has patients seeking out cosmetic surgery to look like filtered versions of themselves: with fuller lips, bigger eyes, or a thinner nose."
😥 Holy moly, it does video, too. Have you ever seen that movie "The Congress" (2013)? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congr…

(It's based on the Stanislaw Lem book, and the book is way better, but --)
😭 IT TRICKED MY MOM
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