{"pk":26984,"title":"Learning to See People Like People: Predicting Social Impressions of Faces","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Humans make complex inferences on faces, ranging from ob-jective properties (gender, ethnicity, expression, age, identity,etc) to subjective judgments (facial attractiveness, trustworthi-ness, sociability, friendliness, etc). While the objective as-pects of face perception have been extensively studied, rela-tively fewer computational models have been developed forthe social impressions of faces. Bridging this gap, we de-velop a method to predict human impressions of faces in 40subjective social dimensions, using deep representations fromstate-of-the-art neural networks. We find that model perfor-mance grows as the human consensus on a face trait increases,and that model predictions outperform human groups in cor-relation with human averages. This illustrates the learnabilityof subjective social perception of faces, especially when thereis high human consensus. Our system can be used to decidewhich photographs from a personal collection will make thebest impression. The results are significant for the field of so-cial robotics, demonstrating that robots can learn the subjectivejudgments defining the underlying fabric of human interaction.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"social impression; deep learning; face perception"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rc145bj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Amanda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Song","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Li","middle_name":"","last_name":"Linjie","name_suffix":"","institution":"Purdue University","department":""},{"first_name":"Chad","middle_name":"","last_name":"Atalla","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Garrison","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cottrell","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, San Diego","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26984/galley/16620/download/"}]}