What do you guys think about a smartphone app that could be panned around to capture a 3D image then used the golden mask to calculate an objective attractiveness score?
Would be some fun engineering and probably pretty popular.
then used the golden mask to calculate an
objective attractiveness score
Except that you can't calculate an objective attractiveness score, even if there is statistical consensus among raters. Might as well just throw some random numbers on the screen, it wouldn't matter much anyway since your app will be less effective and gather less interest than HotOrNot.com did 11 years ago.
A much better project would be a piece of software that automatically enhances the aesthetic appeal of people in photos. Imagine looking great in any profile picture you upload on Facebook (or whatever), without you or your friends noticing the change (blaming it on distortions from image resizing).
It would be a cool app, and allot of new techniques may be invented or discovered while developing it. But one should ask what are the attractiveness criteria? what do you mean by "Data-driven". The data comes from other users? I mean aesthetics norms comes from society or the user, or both?! Very subjective! if we build tools to enforce aesthetics norms on users from the "common sense" - (things that never made sense too me), we are basically killing all the peculiar beauties in the world, say, a cute pimple next to the lip.
Idea was that you could get an objective "hotness" or attractiveness rating based on how well your features fit the golden ratio / golden mask. It would also give users preferences when they first use the app (eg against 10-20 faces, which you can have precalculated all the points accurately), you can map each face against their preferred faces, giving the personalised rating system.
Use case at a pub/bar quick scan of the iphone would give a objective rating and your rating.
V2. could add location and start building real time tracking of where the hot women / men or those matching closer to your rating were going tonight :)
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What do you guys think about a smartphone app that could be panned around to capture a 3D image then used the golden mask to calculate an objective attractiveness score?
Would be some fun engineering and probably pretty popular.
A much better project would be a piece of software that automatically enhances the aesthetic appeal of people in photos. Imagine looking great in any profile picture you upload on Facebook (or whatever), without you or your friends noticing the change (blaming it on distortions from image resizing).
Interesting idea. Seems to be what the OP has researched
It would be a cool app, and allot of new techniques may be invented or discovered while developing it. But one should ask what are the attractiveness criteria? what do you mean by "Data-driven". The data comes from other users? I mean aesthetics norms comes from society or the user, or both?! Very subjective! if we build tools to enforce aesthetics norms on users from the "common sense" - (things that never made sense too me), we are basically killing all the peculiar beauties in the world, say, a cute pimple next to the lip.
Data driven using research like this:
http://www.mendeley.com/research/female-preference-for-male-...
http://journal.nida.ac.th/journal/attachments/8_Sunthorn%20K...
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/com/108/3/233/
Also would provide an option for you to rate 10-20 and give a personal rating.
I have seen already on the Iphone. Can't remember what the name is.
Probably talking about this: http://appshopper.com/utilities/are-you-hot
It is just a random number generator though.
Idea was that you could get an objective "hotness" or attractiveness rating based on how well your features fit the golden ratio / golden mask. It would also give users preferences when they first use the app (eg against 10-20 faces, which you can have precalculated all the points accurately), you can map each face against their preferred faces, giving the personalised rating system.
Use case at a pub/bar quick scan of the iphone would give a objective rating and your rating.
V2. could add location and start building real time tracking of where the hot women / men or those matching closer to your rating were going tonight :)