Predicting Facial Beauty Without Landmarks
ECCV'10: Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Computer vision: Part VI(2010)
摘要
A fundamental task in artificial intelligence and computer vision is to build machines that can behave like a human in recognizing a broad range of visual concepts. This paper aims to investigate and develop intelligent systems for learning the concept of female facial beauty and producing human-like predictors. Artists and social scientists have long been fascinated by the notion of facial beauty; but study by computer scientists has only begun in the last few years. Our work is notably different from and goes beyond previous works in several aspects: 1) we focus on fully-automatic learning approaches that do not require costly manual annotation of landmark facial features but simply take the raw pixels as inputs; 2) our study is based on a collection of data that is an order of magnitude larger than that of any previous study; 3) we imposed no restrictions in terms of pose, lighting, background; expression; age, and ethnicity on the face images used for training and testing. These factors significantly increased the difficulty of the learning task. We show that a biologically-inspired model with multiple layers of trainable feature extractors can produce results that are much more human-like than the previously used eigenface approach. Finally; we develop a novel visualization method to interpret the learned model and revealed the existence of several beautiful features that go beyond the current averageness and symmetry hypotheses.
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facial beauty,female facial beauty,landmark facial feature,previous study,biologically-inspired model,computer scientist,computer vision,fundamental task,human-like predictor,previous work
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