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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!
Cool work! I'm curious regarding the training dataset. What is the distribution of faces by race/age? Also regarding the raters, what is their distribution? (Race/age/cultural background)?
It's widely known that attractiveness is heavily dependent on cultural upbringing.
Signed,
Butthurt dev whose best pic only rated an "OK".
EDIT: You also rated Yoona (a Korean pop star) as just "Nice": http://imgur.com/uJVnQ9S. I guess that makes me feel better about my "OK". I'd stay out of Korea if I were you---I hear their fans aren't very forgiving.
As mentioned in our article (http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07867v1), the training dataset for attractiveness is from Blinq. The underage and above 37 years old face images were discarded. All people are heterosexual in our training dataset and mainly from Zurich area, Switzerland.
Therefore, our model of attractiveness fits the cultural bias of Zurich, Switzerland.
We consider faces.ethz.ch a little fun tool. I hope that the fans of Yoona will understand :) With more training data from abroad Switzerland our algorithms will fit their expectations.
For age and gender we used much more and diverse data, therefore are more reliable for the majority of ethnic backgrounds.
But seriously, what purpose would it serve over a promise in TOS? A normal user will trust both (except the button would be bullshitting them). A privacy-obsessed one will trust neither.
You could make a delete button which merely opens a popup to explain that they do not save it in the first place. That way if they're looking for a delete button, they'll find it, but it will give them the right information.
Could this site be used to optimize your dating profile photo (if you have one)? I'm probably "Hmmm" on most photos but possibly "Ok" or even "Nice" on a few. What does the algorithm want?
None of the images I am uploading are working. It is saying it cannot detect a face on any of them. Is this a masking of the stability error or some other issue?
Merantix conceptualizes, builds and scales AI ventures. We acquire enterprise datasets that enable promising products, we incubate those products in joint ventures, and we spin off companies to support their growth. Our team is made up of entrepreneurs, scientists, and engineers from premier universities in Europe and North America. Many of us have PhD’s and work experience at top tech companies. We’re based in Europe’s startup capital, Berlin, and are growing quickly!
We are looking for Machine Intelligence Engineers to join our core team to help us develop impactful applications of machine learning across a range of fields. We deploy to Google Cloud Platform, leveraging Tensorflow, Apache Beam, Google Cloud ML, and Docker.
You will:
We define ourselves by a culture of friendship and ownership. We’re looking for capable, driven, and thoughtful women and men to add to our vision.Find out more and apply here: http://www.merantix.com/#joinus