In a move that will enter into the history books as the first beauty contest judged by artificial intelligence, Beauty.AI opens as a platform bridging human participants and algorithm developers with a mission to develop an impartial machine intelligence with the perception of human beauty. People are able to enter the beauty pageant using a mobile app, and data scientists teams from all over the world can submit algorithms for evaluating the many criteria linked to perception of human beauty, "youthfulness", and health.
What matters in beauty is perception.
Perception is how you and other people see you, and this perception is
almost always biased. Still, healthy people look more attractive despite
their age and nationality.
This has enabled the team of biogerontologists
and data scientists, who believe that in the near future machines will
be able to get a lot of vital medical information about people's health
by just processing their photos, to develop a set of algorithms that can
accurately evaluate the criteria linked to perception of human beauty
and health where it is most important – the human face. But evaluating
beauty and health is not enough. The team’s challenge is to find
effective ways to slow down ageing and help people look healthy and
beautiful.
As a first step to this ambitious challenge,
the team has started the huge international scientific experiment,
called The First Beauty Contest Judged by Artificial Intelligence, where
they invite all the people of the world, including the Robot Jury -
Data Scientists, who will teach machines to estimate human
attractiveness.
Robots will look at human pictures taken by a
standardized app and compare them with millions of others. They will
evaluate the many features including symmetry, skin color, wrinkles and
many other beauty, youthfulness and health parameters which affect our
perception of human beauty and rank people within their age group, race
and gender.
“Artificial intelligence systems have already
surpassed humans in image recognition, and it is only a matter of time
before robots will be able to evaluate human visual appeal, engage in
fashion design, and even make perfumes. We decided to build a platform
which will help bridge some of the most advanced humans - those who are
interested in robot opinion and those developers, who are building
intelligent systems to understand the beauty function. We want to turn
this into a quarterly contest, which will attract more algorithms and
more people interested in getting an impartial perception of their
beauty, taking into consideration their age, gender and thousands of
other parameters”, said Alexey Shevtsov, the co-founder of Youth
Laboratories collective. This ambitious team has also partnered with
top infrastructural companies like Nvidia and Microsoft to provide the
best computation facilities for algorithm testing.
This contest also provides several
opportunities to go down in human history: as the first human in the
world to win the the beauty contest judged by robots, or as one of the
first data scientists who taught a machine to estimate human
attractiveness.
“Most people are not interested in aging or in
extending longevity, but they are interested in how others perceive
their appearance. My interest in Beauty.AI is related to understanding
how the perception of someone’s facial appearance changes with age.
Humans are generally biased and there needs to be a robot to provide an
impartial opinion. Beauty.AI is the first step in a much larger story,
in which a mobile app trained to evaluate the perception of human
appearance will evolve into a caring personal assistant to help users
look their best and retain their youthful looks for as long as
possible”, said Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, CEO of Insilco Medicine, Inc, who
consults on aging and age-related issues.
The Beauty.AI contest will be conducted online at http://www.beauty.ai
It’s timeline is:
It starts as of November, 19, 2015,
All people of the world are welcome to submit their selfies up to January, 15, 2016 through the Beauty.AI App,
Data scientists teams are welcome to submit their algorithms up to January, 20, 2016 on http://www.beauty.ai,
Winners will be announced as of January, 28, 2016.
The Beauty.AI mobile app for Android platforms
is available for download today and the iPhone mobile app will become
available in four weeks after the launch date.
About Beauty.AI
Beauty.AI is the first beauty contest judged entirely by robot jury,
where humans and robots can apply participate. Every quarter this
platform will open submissions for multiple developers of beauty-ranking
algorithms to train and test their systems. The project is organized by
the Youth Laboratories collective, which is dedicated to understanding
of the human nature and effective ways to slow down aging and retain the
youthful look for as long as possible.
If you have any questions about the science of
aging, bioinformatics, deep learning or Youth Laboratories collective’s
plan for larger story, please email to team@beauty.ai or visit: http://www.beauty.ai
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