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Does this selfie make my nose look big? Yes:
Taking selfies at a distance of about 12 inches from the face increases perceived nose size by nearly 30%, according to a report published Thursday in the journal JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery [DOI: 10.1001/jamafacial.2018.0009] [DX].
Researchers now are cautioning that patients interested in cosmetic procedures should not turn to self-photographs as guidance when considering making changes to their faces. "Patients, people, even my family have to be aware that if you're taking a selfie, it's not really how you look," said Dr. Boris Paskhover, a facial plastics and reconstructive surgeon at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and a leading author on the study. "Selfies make your nose look wider and thicker when it really isn't, and people like a smaller nose," Paskhover added. "My fear is that the generation out there now doesn't know. All they know is the selfie."
Also at EurekAlert and The Verge.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday March 02 2018, @02:26PM (12 children)
Is there an app for that? Facial perspective correction.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday March 02 2018, @02:38PM (2 children)
Stupids gonna stupe. It puts money into the economy, so who am I to stop them?
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(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday March 02 2018, @03:00PM (4 children)
Apps? Well, probably. But aside from that, image processing tools have offered this in a general form for decades.
What's going on is that the nose looks bigger because the lens is wide angle and distorts what it sees. The reverse optical transforms are a relatively trivial bit of math.
Because of the nature of the distortion, the correction required is dependent upon the distance and angle the shot was taken at. So it's not trivial to do it well and automatically. Not impossible, though, if the software knows the face from a specific reference viewpoint and is smart enough to work with that. ML for the win there, I suspect.
Right now, getting someone to actually process an image instead of reflexively/immediately
twerpingtweeting it... that's the trick.(Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Friday March 02 2018, @03:45PM (3 children)
I googled around, because I don't do portraits and this was interesting to me, and apparently this topic is "old news" for the pros using pro gear and pro software.
http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com/ [lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com]
is a very small scale example of analyzing the embedded focus data to use for whatever purpose, and there's plenty of stuff out there to flatten lens distortions and things.
Of course that technology is for real cameras, not iphones, but someday who knows.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday March 02 2018, @06:08PM (2 children)
Its also old news for every 14 year old girl taking here first selfie and comparing it to what she sees in the mirror.
Seriously, why is this an article in JAMA? How can actual surgeons be so stupid that they need to be told this by a scholarly (snort) article?
(I assume it appears here merely to mock the paper's author).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday March 02 2018, @07:06PM (1 child)
> why is this an article in JAMA?
Just read it as "be careful [wink, wink], the people who take selfies may be tempted to give more business to plastic surgeons [oh!], so you should really [cough cough] warn them that their self-perception is distorted"
Just expect the next "are you perfect enough?" app, sponsored by some anonymous well-off group, to recommend a selfie taken from 6 inches.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday March 02 2018, @09:19PM
Undoubtedly financially sponsored by nose hair removal gadget company.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday March 02 2018, @04:58PM
a bit of fisheye compensation is good for the nose. It should be called sawfishnose compensation maybe.
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Saturday March 03 2018, @10:03AM (1 child)
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @01:18PM
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