A humanlike predictor of facial attractiveness

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 649-656

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

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS; FACIAL FEATURE; FACIAL GEOMETRY; FACIAL IMAGES; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS;

IMAGE TEXTURE;

EID: 49249088283     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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