Transferring Rich Deep Features for Facial Beauty Prediction

20 Mar 2018  ·  Lu Xu, Jinhai Xiang, Xiaohui Yuan ·

Feature extraction plays a significant part in computer vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a method which transfers rich deep features from a pretrained model on face verification task and feeds the features into Bayesian ridge regression algorithm for facial beauty prediction. We leverage the deep neural networks that extracts more abstract features from stacked layers. Through simple but effective feature fusion strategy, our method achieves improved or comparable performance on SCUT-FBP dataset and ECCV HotOrNot dataset. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method and clarify the inner interpretability of facial beauty perception.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Facial Beauty Prediction ECCV HotOrNot CNN features + Bayesian ridge regression Pearson Correlation 0.468 # 1
Facial Beauty Prediction SCUT-FBP CNN features + Bayesian ridge regression MAE 0.2595 # 1

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