April 4, 2008
Grad Student Creates a Hot-or-Not Bot
An Israeli computer-science grad student has designed a program that judges how attractive women are.
According to Haaretz, the program identifies basic facial features that are considered beautiful. For his master’s thesis at Tel Aviv University, Amit Kagian had human participants rate the beauty of photographed faces. He then processed the photos and mathematically mapped the faces by computer, coming up with 98 numbers that represent the geometric shape of the face, hair color, smoothness of skin, facial symmetry, and other characteristics. The computer then uses these dimensions to predict how human subjects would rate other female faces.
The study only covered female faces because “there is a greater variety of positions regarding male beauty,” Haaretz said. —Catherine Rampell
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How can I see this Web site to rate ‘em myself? (The women that is.)
— Good ol' Bubba Apr 4, 05:29 PM #
“There is a greater variety of position regarding male beauty.” I’ll say. The more positions he knows the more beautiful he becomes.
— marci Apr 4, 05:46 PM #
I hope the person who reviews your thesis is a woman so she can tell you where to shove it!
— Marcia Apr 7, 12:42 PM #