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Subjective Face Transform using Human First Impressions
Chaitanya Roygaga, Joshua Krinsky, Kai Zhang, Kenny Kwok, Aparna Bharati
Humans tend to form quick subjective first impressions of non-physical attributes when seeing someone's face, such as perceived trustworthiness or attractiveness. To understand what variations in a face lead to different subjective impressions, this work uses generative models to find semantically meaningful edits to a face image that change perceived attributes. Unlike prior work that relied on statistical manipulation in feature space, our end-to-end framework considers trade-offs between preserving identity and changing perceptual attributes. It maps identity-preserving latent space directions to changes in attribute scores, enabling transformation of any input face along an attribute axis according to a target change. We train on real and synthetic faces, evaluate for in-domain and out-of-domain images using predictive models and human ratings, demonstrating the generalizability of our approach. Ultimately, such a framework can be used to understand and explain biases in subjective interpretation of faces that are not dependent on the identity.
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