Facial attractiveness: Beauty and the machine

Neural Computation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 119-142

  Eisenthal, Yael ^a   Dror, Gideon ^b   Ruppin, Eytan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTION; ESTHETICS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEAUTY; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33644874834     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976606774841602     Document Type: Article

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