Facial Attractiveness: Beauty and the Machine
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in Neural Computation
- Vol. 18 (1) , 119-142
- https://doi.org/10.1162/089976606774841602
Abstract
This work presents a novel study of the notion of facial attractiveness in a machine learning context. To this end, we collected human beauty ratings for data sets of facial images and used various techniques for learning the attractiveness of a face. The trained predictor achieves a significant correlation of 0.65 with the average human ratings. The results clearly show that facial beauty is a universal concept that a machine can learn. Analysis of the accuracy of the beauty prediction machine as a function of the size of the training data indicates that a machine producing human-like attractiveness rating could be obtained given a moderately larger data set.Keywords
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