City: Become a principal from junior college!

Lu Zhou really wanted to say that he was not a straight man.

Girls nowadays are too dishonest.

If you like me, can't you just say it?

But the more I explained, the happier my roommates laughed.

Lu Zhou was too lazy to talk.

Lu Zhou waved his hand to refuse the invitation to play basketball.

Lu Zhou has something to do today.

When I returned to the dormitory, my roommates had already arrived.

They all lay in front of the black and white computer screen and kept inputting various codes.

"Agang is back, hurry up and work harder, I think we can get it done today."

"Huayao Mobile has updated its beauty algorithm today, so we also need to update our algorithm. We probably won't be able to do it today."

"Work harder, today is the day for a good meal."

"Lu Gang, just wait to become the public enemy of beauty!"

When his roommates saw Lu Zhou, they all laughed and joked.

Lu Zhou curled his lips when he heard that, sat down on his bed, and turned on his computer.

There are two screens on Lu Zhou's computer desk.

One is a normal color display, and the other is an ink screen display similar to the Kindle e-book screen...

A monitor costs 10,000 yuan.

But looking at this screen, my eyes don’t get tired as easily as before.

It can be called a coding artifact.

Each of the four people in the dormitory has an ink-wash screen.

All of them were sponsored by one of my rich roommates.

Although my roommate said it was free.

But no one wanted to get it for free, and they all decided to give the money to their roommates when the project they were working on became profitable.

What is the project you are working on?
It was a sudden idea that Lu Zhou had one day.

One day, Lu Zhou was browsing online and saw a classmate digging up the dark history of Chen Zhenwei, the first teacher who stayed at his college.

It is said that Teacher Chen fell in love online when the college just reopened.

The photos of your online dating partner are particularly beautiful.

As a result, when we met at the school gate, we turned out to be two completely different people.

It is said to be a large tank!

Teacher Chen invited the other party to have a meal in the cafeteria and then ran away.

Then he was hung on a small red tree by the other party, who said he was a man below or something.

When Lu Zhou saw the post, he felt that the teacher had been very miserable.

But what Lu Zhou didn’t expect was that many of his classmates also started sharing their experiences of being cheated by photos under the post.

There are quite a few.

After all, the future of Xingchen students is obvious to all.

Girls from surrounding universities all hope to date boys from Xingchen College.

Regardless of whether you can make it to the end, there are also many benefits.

For example, you can go to Xingchen Canteen for dinner.

For example, you can get shared umbrellas from Xingchen Academy, which change their designs every year.

Not to mention that most of Xingchen students are quite rich.

But many girls are not good-looking enough and lack confidence.

So how do you make yourself confident?

Of course, use the beauty camera to take beautiful photos.

As a result, a large number of Xingchen students were deceived, and some were even posted on Xiaohongshu and described as being men who made women.

This incident made Lu Zhou, who had always wanted to do something to earn some living expenses during college, see a business opportunity.

If I could create an app that can determine whether a photo has been beautified and restore it with just one click, wouldn’t that be a huge success?
I can earn some living expenses.

And the majority of male students no longer need to be deceived by photos.

Win-win.

However, Lu Zhou only briefly thought about the difficulty of this project and knew that he couldn't do it alone.

For example, when it comes to beautification, the cameras of different mobile phone brands have their own algorithms.

Basically they are all different.

Secondly, even if we can reverse engineer the other party’s beauty algorithm.

Most photos of beautiful women are uploaded to social software before they can be seen by others.

During the uploading process, most pictures will be compressed by these social software.

Each company's compression algorithm is also different.

For example, WeChat is different from Weibo, and the same is true for Xiaohongshu.

This made Lu Zhou, who had originally wanted to see if he could restore the beauty effect in the video in one go, give up the idea.

Let’s take pictures first.

Once the pictures are done, we can talk about the video.

But if you can't handle it by yourself, you can ask your roommate to help you.

After listening to Lu Zhou's ideas.

My roommates are all very interested in this project.

After all, there are too many beauties in today's Internet age.

If you're just rushing, you don't have to care what the other person looks like.

But sometimes we can't help but be curious about what these beauties really look like.

Could it be Qiao Biluo?
Even uglier than Qiao Biluo?
After all, the current accumulation of beauty filters is really outrageous.

A bucket waist can turn into a snake waist.

A round face can be transformed into a V-shaped face.

Elephant legs can become long legs.

This is visually friendly for men.

But when there is a chance to go offline, it is easy to be frightened.

It would be really embarrassing if you were told “I’ll leave then”.

My rich second-generation roommate is the most interested in this project.

So, with the money of the rich second-generation roommate.

Lu Zhou started this project with his roommates.

The project was named "Beauty Killer" by its sponsor, the second-generation rich man!
……

The entire research and development process took a full semester.

Basically every afternoon after class and lunch, everyone sits in front of the computer and starts working.

It took a full semester to almost complete it.

This is still a case of proactively reducing a lot of workload.

For example, there are too many mobile phone manufacturers.

Some models are different.

So I mainly only do beautification for Mi, ov, Huayao and other brands.

Like the well-known small and beautiful manufacturer Meizu.

I also had a conscience, so I didn’t study the mobile phones of manufacturers such as 390.

Otherwise you will be exhausted.

In addition, the reverse engineering of platform compression algorithms has only been done by large manufacturers.

For example, WeChat, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu.

I didn’t do anything like small broken stations or forced calls.

In short, it is easier said than done.

The technology of big companies is indeed not to be underestimated.

During the research and development process, we encountered many problems.

But luckily they have a teacher.

If you encounter any problems, go to your teacher for help.

The computer teacher at my school is really amazing.

Most questions can be answered and solutions given at the time.

If there are a few questions that cannot be answered right away, we can call them over the next day and give them some ideas.

In short.

With my own efforts and the help of teachers.

Lu Zhou and others are finally about to complete the project.

Now the cloud servers have been purchased and the environment has been set up.

As a result, Huayao mobile phone updated its camera beauty algorithm today.

This forced them to work overtime.

However, through comparison, I found that there are not many updates.

Therefore, Lu Zhou and the others were very motivated.

I decided to launch my own Beauty Killer project online today.

……

Eleven o'clock at night.

Under the light of the desk lamp, Lu Zhou and the others stood up suddenly and cheered in unison.

But the next moment he lowered his voice again.

Their beauty nemesis is finally here.

The hearts of several people were filled with excitement.

Their beauty nemesis actually has great limitations.

For example, it can only crack the latest beauty algorithms of these major mobile phone manufacturers.

It is useless for other mobile phones or older versions of mobile phones. Also, photos that have been beautified with software can only be restored to the level of a few mainstream software.

Photos created with other software or Photoshop cannot be restored.

It can be said that there are many restrictions.

But everyone felt that this was enough.

After all, most girls don’t have such high photo-editing skills.

Or the camera has its own beauty function.

Either you can do some minor edits with Meitu XiuXiu, or use one-click beautification.

In this case, basically 80 percent of the image can be covered.

enough.

They have already made an Android version of the software.

As for the Apple side, you can directly use the WeChat applet.

Anyway, the services are provided by the server.

The mini program was submitted for review and approval a week in advance and has been approved.

The first project is online at this moment.

My roommates were all extremely excited.

"How much money can we make from this software?"

"I guess it's at least one million a month. After all, there are so many people who edit their photos now. If I were someone else, I would also like to try this software."

"Take off, from now on we will be the saviors of online dating."

"Indeed, our software will definitely benefit tens of millions of men who fall in love online and prevent them from suffering mental harm."

Lu Zhou was quite excited when he heard what his roommates said.

If only I could earn a million dollars a month.

I bought the latest mobile phone for my parents.

Then buy yourself the latest pair of Asics running shoes.

There are also the Shokz bone conduction headphones, and the Logitech ergonomic keyboard and mouse set that costs over a thousand dollars.

As a young man, Lu Zhou was interested in many things.

But I have always been troubled by money.

With money, everything can be solved.

The profit model of our own Beauty Nemesis is also very simple.

You can start with a free trial.

Then you can either watch ads to get usage counts.

Or buy it three times for one dollar.

In this way, whether you are someone who wants to get something for free or a rich guy who is too lazy to watch advertisements, you can all enjoy the happiness brought by Beauty Buster.

But I was excited for a long time.

Lu Zhou suddenly thought of a question: "What if no one uses our software? After all, we don't seem to have advertised."

Whether it is mini programs or software, there are too many of them on the Internet nowadays.

There are countless apps that are completely ignored.

After all, the content on the Internet is really too rich nowadays.

If you don't spend money, there is no way for people to know about your work.

Everyone frowned upon hearing this.

The second-generation rich man said, "How about spending some money on promotion? I still have 100,000 yuan in this card. Let's find an advertising alliance."

"Our software is unique. Anyone who has used it will definitely help us promote it."

The rich second generation plans to solve the problem with money.

But Lu Zhou thought about it and shook his head: "No need, just post it on our college forum..."

"Our classmates have used it, and as long as they are satisfied, it will surely spread quickly."

"Good wine needs no bush, so there's no need for us to rush."

Hearing this, the roommates all nodded.

There are now more than 30,000 students in our college.

It is used in the campus forum.

After all, there are no advertisements, and there are only students from our own college.

There won’t always be a bunch of random guys selling movies.

If you post it here, there will definitely be a lot of students downloading it.

So, Lu Zhou turned on his computer and started posting and uploading apps...

However, not many college students, even those from Star Academy, go to bed early.

There are also many people chatting and gossiping in the forum.

Seeing that there was a new post, many students clicked in to see what was going on.

But when they saw the introduction, their eyes widened in slight surprise.

Beauty nemesis?

Can this software be used to reverse the beauty algorithm and restore the original photo?
real or fake?

If you see this kind of post in places like Tieba.

The students will definitely not believe it.

I will definitely think that it is an advertisement that does not match the product described.

It’s just like those ads where you get equipment by chopping down trees at the beginning, but when you click on it, it’s completely different.

But the problem is that this is our own college's forum.

Only student accounts can log in.

The person who posted the message also said that this was a software developed by several students from their computer science department.

It shouldn't be a lie.

So several students immediately clicked to download.

After all, most people actually have a desire to peek.

Being able to know the other person's true appearance beneath the beauty filter is attractive to many people.

In a dormitory of Xingchen Academy, roommates are playing games together.

A classmate who had been picking up equipment for ten minutes was shot in the head by the first enemy he encountered. He could only wait for his roommate to finish and was scrolling through his phone out of boredom.

Soon, I saw the post from Lu Zhou.

Looking at the introduction, to be honest, he was a little skeptical.

If beauty effects could be restored so easily, those big companies would just be there to earn their keep.

But since he had nothing to do, he downloaded the attachment in the post and installed it.

Beauty nemesis.

This name is quite interesting.

The software interface is very simple. Apart from the introduction, there is a frame-style button for uploading pictures.

This student always likes to skip when playing games and doesn't like to read the introduction.

So just click the Upload button.

However, the prompt for first-time use still popped up.

"This app can only analyze and restore the photos taken with the beauty filter by Huayao ov Miguo's built-in camera..."

"This app can only analyze and restore photos that have been beautified with one click on apps like Meitu XiuXiu..."

"This app can only try to restore photos from Weibo, WeChat, and Xiaohongshu. Please download the original photos..."

"If you are not sure of the source of the photo, you can also try to restore it. It is very likely to fail, and garbled or strange images will appear..."

Looking at the introduction, the student smiled.

You know what, it does look quite realistic.

I happen to be using a Huayao mobile phone, so I might as well give it a try.

Open the camera, take a photo, and adjust the beauty setting to the highest setting.

Looking at myself in the photo, I feel awkward with my pointed chin, thin face, strange white complexion, and ridiculously large eyes.

The classmate was sure.

If I were walking down the street and saw myself in a photo, I wouldn’t be able to recognize myself.

Because I can't say that I am very similar to the person in the photo, I can only say that there is no relationship at all.

She is so beautiful that even her own mother can’t recognize her.

He felt that this app probably couldn't do it.

However, when he clicked upload.

The photo upload was completed quickly.

The screen interface changes: "Analyzing photo information..."

"Analysis successful!"

"Trying to restore..."

"Restored successfully, please check..."

Immediately, the screen jumped again.

A young boy with a square face appeared on the screen.

Looking at the photo, the classmate's eyes widened...

Damn it...

The person in this photo is indeed me.

Even the pimples on my face that appeared from eating Sichuan cuisine these two days were restored.

This is outrageous.

Is this really fake?

The students' first reaction was suspicion.

After all, you can use a beauty-enhanced photo that has basically nothing to do with yourself to restore your original appearance, and it is exactly the same.

This is really outrageous.

This software just asked for permission to access my photo album. Could it be that it secretly scanned my photos and then restored them based on the photos in my album?
Otherwise, how could it be so magical? (End of this chapter)