17 July 2019 Nonlinear, flexible, semisupervised learning scheme for face beauty scoring
Fadi Dornaika, Anne Elorza, Kunwei Wang, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras
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Abstract

Automatic facial beauty scoring in images is an emerging research topic in face-based biometrics. All existing methods adopt fully supervised schemes. We introduce the use of semisupervised learning schemes for solving the problem of face beauty scoring. The paper has two main contributions. First, instead of using fully supervised techniques, we show that graph-based score propagation methods can enrich model learning without the need of additional labeled face images. Second, we propose a nonlinear flexible manifold embedding for solving the score propagation. This model can be used for transductive and inductive settings. The proposed semisupervised schemes were tested on three recent public datasets for face beauty analysis: SCUT-FBP, M2B, and SCUT-FBP5500. These experiments, as well as many comparisons with supervised schemes, show that the nonlinear semisupervised scheme compares favorably with many supervised schemes. They also show that its performances in terms of error prediction and Pearson correlation are better than those reported for the used datasets.

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Fadi Dornaika, Anne Elorza, Kunwei Wang, and Ignacio Arganda-Carreras "Nonlinear, flexible, semisupervised learning scheme for face beauty scoring," Journal of Electronic Imaging 28(4), 043013 (17 July 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.28.4.043013
Received: 18 January 2019; Accepted: 28 June 2019; Published: 17 July 2019
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KEYWORDS
Data modeling

Error analysis

Feature extraction

Principal component analysis

Performance modeling

Chemical elements

Control systems

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