When I put a picture of myself that had the contrast turned up my picture was rated "godlike", when I put in the original picture it was rated "hot", and when I turned down the contrast some it was rated "ok." I'm an unhealthy, almost pasty shade of white with a slightly bulbous nose and a classic fivehead.<p>Now, this a problem for bigger reasons:<p>An older picture of Denzel Washington gets an ok: <a href="http://imgur.com/Li0gZqH" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/Li0gZqH</a><p>A recent picture of Howard Stern gets a hot: <a href="http://imgur.com/L8hxoVK" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/L8hxoVK</a><p>Obviously this is just a toy and your algorithm is pretty inexact, but... you need to fix it, or at least note in giant letters that it only works for white people right now and that you're working on your algorithm to make it more universal. Because it only (kinda, sorta?) works for white people right now. If you claim something is universal in your headline then note its specificity in the fine print, you're lying. If you build an algorithm that calls most people who aren't white ugly, you need to think about the buzz-to-backlash factor of demoing it.<p>It's really not a good look, and you've got a week at most before you get called a "Nazi Dating App" on twitter and your potential VCs get spooked and pull out. I don't think it's intentional on your part, but literally no one cares about what your intentions are when there's an opportunity to create moral indignation clickbait. Just a friendly word of warning!
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/Lq648My.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/Lq648My.png</a><p>Well, there goes my last ounce of self esteem.<p>If anyone needs me I'll be sitting in the corner with one of those criminal hacker ski masks while I work on open source stuff.
Hi, I'm Rasmus and worked on the algorithms behind faces.ethz.ch. If you have any technical questions, let me know! Sorry for having some stability issues, we got much more traffic than expected and are currently working hard to fix everything!
Obligatory..."what's new?" Especially now that the site's down.<p>I mean, is it different from Project Oxford, the Microsoft API that's been around for awhile and is still quite amazing?<p><a href="https://www.projectoxford.ai/demo/vision#Analysis" rel="nofollow">https://www.projectoxford.ai/demo/vision#Analysis</a><p>I actually tried it out early this morning, to compare it with a stock install of OpenCV 3. It got the faces correct, and the ages very well too.<p>Here are its guesses for the Star Wars TFA poster: <a href="http://imgur.com/XT7RmX6" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/XT7RmX6</a><p>Of course, perhaps users have trained it...particularly ones sympathetic to Carrie Fisher. Though I'd argue that they would've also corrected Boyega's face.
See also "What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie" at <a href="http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/" rel="nofollow">http://karpathy.github.io/2015/10/25/selfie/</a> . To summarise the "What makes a good #selfie" section:<p>- Be female.<p>- Face should occupy about 1/3 of the image.<p>- Cut off your forehead.<p>- Show your long hair.<p>- Oversaturate the face.<p>- Put a filter on it.<p>- Add a border.
this cat is 31 and is hot
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I have a heart shaped face, a slight hawk nose, green eyes, golden hair, freckles on my cheeks, I have light skin, my forehead is an average length, my eyebrows are medium sized, and my teeth are straight
Well, it was way off on my age, but it correctly gendered me ad female. Which I find quite impressive as I am a transgender woman, I've only been on hormones for 4 months, and most humans aren't even correctly gendering in me yet.<p>More than anything, I'm curious to know what features it was that registered me as female. Was it as simple as the long hair, or some complicated subtle mix of many small details?
This would make a great psychology experiment. Use an algorithm to detect someone's age, then randomly assign them an attractiveness score and see how their behavior differs based on the result. How does the random attractiveness result effect how likely they are to share their score? To retake the test? Does this vary based on the users age?
As someone who switches genders I find that it guesses my trans flavor right fairly often - maybe 75% of the time. It always gets my cis flavor right.<p>Also, the ones it rates the least attractive it, for some reason, tends to identify me as much younger (across both genders). Like more than a decade younger than the picture, and it'll rate it "Hmm..."<p>As for the highest rated pictures... I can't figure out what it does; though one where someone else did my makeup and it was <i>perfect</i> was among the two it rated stunning. I was surprised that the ones I tried to feed it where my phone's "Beauty face" kicked in (which removes most wrinkles and skin flaws) didn't seem to rate any higher... though makeup did make a difference.<p>A fun little toy.<p>Edit: Oh, and other than occasionally docking me a decade as mentioned, it was pretty accurate on age (+-3 years, generally). Which I find interesting as I'm frequently told I look younger than I am.
It says I'm either stunning or hot in the 4 photos I tried. Is that real? I don't really get oogled by women or anything like that.<p><a href="http://imgur.com/Td11aoI" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/Td11aoI</a><p>Yeah this site is bogus. So many inconsistent ratings.
Oh hey, I worked on something similar two years ago: <a href="http://www.FaceMyAge.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.FaceMyAge.com</a> (note, the age estimator has been taken offline - because, 2 years ago).<p>A lot of the issues our estimator (just an age estimator) ran into were the standard face recognition problems: occlusion, lighting, and (the obvious) bogus images.<p>Anyone involved, what data set was the attractiveness scale built from(Labelled Faces in the Wild Dataset (<a href="http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/)" rel="nofollow">http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/)</a>)?
It said I am 36 and I am 37. I am impressed (and Hot(tm))! However, it guessed a coworker was 34/Ummm and she is in her 50s. I am conflicted about telling her the results.
A side question: Is there a service/project that can identify features of a person by feeding it various photos of that person? Examples:<p>- body type<p>- piercing<p>- tattoos<p>- eyeglasses<p>- colored hair<p>- etc.
This fails for Asian faces. Tested it on a picture of Bing Bing (Chinese Actress) that is absolutely stunning. She got a "Nice" rating. This is a toy.<p>Check out how Sensetime did a similar feature.
A service that upvotes average to below average white people and downvotes average to above average people of color. Is someone anticipating a decline in the international value of Whiteness?
A lot of the sample photos look like they have had filters put on them. One of the things that karpathy found was that convnets were bad at images with filters.<p>Anyway I only got "connection error".
Plus: The algorithm thought I was 24 years old. I'm actually 32.<p>Minus: I got the lowest rating possible. Haha, terribly depressing feedback before a date.
Reminds of the those State fair booths where the guy tries to guess your age.
<a href="http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2013/08/your_age_weight_and_birth_month_are_fair_game_for_the_guesser_at_the_new_york_state_fair.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2013/08/your_age_weight_and_bir...</a>
I think this thing is all over the place.<p><a href="http://pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=97312" rel="nofollow">http://pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=97312</a>
Off by almost a decade on age.
It's not a lot more precise than randomly guessing.<p>Check this album out:
<a href="http://imgur.com/a/1a1tn" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/1a1tn</a><p>Seems racist and sexist towards men.