Adaptive ranking of facial attractiveness

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As humans, we love to rank things. Top ten lists exist for everything from movie stars to scary animals. Ambiguities (i.e., ties) naturally occur in the process of ranking when people feel they cannot distinguish two items. Human reported rankings derived from star ratings abound on recommendation websites such as Yelp and Netflix. However, those websites differ in star precision which points to the need for ranking systems that adapt to an individual user's preference sensitivity. In this work we propose an adaptive system that allows for ties when collecting ranking data. Using this system, we propose a framework for obtaining computer-generated rankings. We test our system and a computer-generated ranking method on the problem of evaluating human attractiveness. Extensive experimental evaluations and analysis demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our work.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6890147
JournalProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Volume2014-September
Issue numberSeptmber
ISSN1945-7871
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Sep 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2014 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 14 Jul 201418 Jul 2014

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2014
CountryChina
CityChengdu
Period14/07/201418/07/2014
SponsorBaidu, BOCOM, et al., NSF, NSFC, QIY

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    Research areas

  • adaptive methods, facial attractiveness, ranking, rating

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