A machine learning predictor of facial attractiveness revealing human-like psychophysical biases

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-243

  Kagian, Amit ^a   Dror, Gideon ^b   Leyvand, Tommer ^a   Meilijson, Isaac ^a   Cohen Or, Daniel ^a   Ruppin, Eytan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Computational neuroscience; Face perception; Facial attractiveness; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECISION MAKING; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING; MODEL; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIMULATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEAUTY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 38549125396     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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