Manipulation of Facial Attractiveness

September 2003


  These faces can be shifted in face-space along a vector that was learned from female faces and their attractiveness ratings assigned by a male observer.
For adaptation, please look at an image from the attractiveness+2 or attractiveness-2 set for 20-30 seconds. It is not required to fixate one point, so you can inspect facial components as you wish. After adaptation to attractive/unattractive faces, the originals look unattractive/attractive.

 
Unchanged Attractiveness

Select Attractiveness -2 -1 original +1 +2

 
 
Female 1 Female 2 Female Average Male Face