Title
Personalized Facial Attractiveness Prediction
Abstract
We present a fully automatic approach to learning the personal facial attractiveness preferences of individual users directly from example images. The target application is computer assisted search of partners in online dating services. The proposed approach is based on the use of epsilon-SVMs to learn a regression function that maps low level image features onto attractiveness ratings. We present empirical results based on a dataset of images collected from a large online dating site. Our system achieved correlations of up to 0.45 (Pearson correlation) on the attractiveness predictions for individual users. We show evidence that the approach learned not just a universal sense of attraction shared by multiple users, but capitalized on the preferences of individual subjects. Our results are promising and could already be used to facilitate the personalized search of partners in online dating.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/AFGR.2008.4813332
2008 8TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATIC FACE & GESTURE RECOGNITION (FG 2008), VOLS 1 AND 2
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
correlation,image features,principal component analysis,accuracy,support vector machines,data mining,face recognition,support vector machine,svm,feature extraction
Conference
2326-5396
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.69
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jacob Whitehill198858.75
Javier R. Movellan21853150.44