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Two papers that seemed quite interesting were one on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.tau.ac.il\/~tommer\/beautification2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">improving the attractiveness of faces in pictures<\/a> and the other on <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cs.columbia.edu\/CAVE\/projects\/face_replace\/\" target=\"_blank\">replacing the face in a picture with another one<\/a> but the one that really blew me away was the one on <a href=\"http:\/\/grail.cs.washington.edu\/projects\/videoenhancement\/videoEnhancement.htm\" target=\"_blank\">enhancing video using static images<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not believing what you were seing had long been limited to the big screen or individually doctored photographs, but it will soon be hard to trust almost anything you don&#8217;t personally witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siggraph is an annual convention where companies and universities get together and impress each other as they each increase the state of the art of computer graphics. 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