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Get a prediction of how other people perceive your face

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Re: Get a prediction of how other people perceive your face

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Post by Aaronneyer »

I'd be really interested to see someone take the research they did here, and extend the survey to various different cultures. Right now, this model will give you a prediction of how a sample of 244 danes will perceive your face, which may be at least somewhat representative of the danish population, but likely not too much beyond that.

It should be easy enough to survey people from different cultures and countries, and feed those surveys into the model, to get a more accurate representation. You could even take that, and have a global model, as well as different models based on cultures, to get things like "This is how you will be perceived by most people in the southern united states".

Re: Get a prediction of how other people perceive your face

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Post by GFK_of_xmaspast »

fsloth wrote: post #14

This is a bit sensitive to cultural influences. For instance, male facial characteristics have a clear regional variance, thus biasing the result in a particular population. I can tell from experience, I'm a male pushing over thirty with ridiculously androgynous features. I'm tagged as a boy by local population, and when I visit UK, I'm tagged as a 'ugly woman' :)

"male facial characteristics have a clear regional variance"

?????

Re: Get a prediction of how other people perceive your face

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Post by piyush_soni »

Doesn't test anything for me for some reason. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong but it doesn't upload or show any 'Annotation points'.

Edit: Just saw this : "We are currently encountering server errrors, resulting in the service being unable to run. We are working to get this up and running as soon as possible. Please stay tuned... "

Re: Get a prediction of how other people perceive your face

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Post by myth_buster »

> This study is based on results from 244 Danish participants

That's a small learning set. I suppose now that it's on HN front page, they will get significant amount of data to tune their model across cultures and nationalities.

Hypothetically, wouldn't it be easier for them to train their model using the portfolio images of public figures like actors/politicians etc for whom I'm sure there would be tremendous amount of subjective description online.

Re: Get a prediction of how other people perceive your face

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Post by mjt0229 »

MrQuincle wrote: post #21
fsloth wrote: post #14

This is a bit sensitive to cultural influences. For instance, male facial characteristics have a clear regional variance, thus biasing the result in a particular population. I can tell from experience, I'm a male pushing over thirty with ridiculously androgynous features. I'm tagged as a boy by local population, and when I visit UK, I'm tagged as a 'ugly woman' :)

You will be fine, because you can tell the program that you're male. However, the study has been using 244 Danes... I think you'll be right that cultural influences will be a defining factor here. I don't think the majority of people looks like a Dane. :-)

I hope they don't tell me that I look like a great dane.
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