New PLOS One publication.

We have recently published a new paper in the Journal PLOS One:

Rojas Q. M, Masip D, Todorov A, Vitria J (2011) Automatic Prediction of Facial Trait Judgments: Appearance vs. Structural Models. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23323. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023323

This paper, which studied whether the ability to decide which faces fall into social categories like attractive or threatening is learnable from the point of view of computer science, has attracted a lot of interest and it has been featured in:

Internet Media:

• http://computervisioncentral.com/content/algorithm-developed-predict-social-traits-facial-analysis01774
• http://crisisboom.com/2011/08/18/uppity-computers-to-judge-social-traits-from-a-persons-face/
• http://www.europapress.es/portaltic/software/noticia-herramienta-informatica-identifica-personas-atractivas-amenazadoras-20110819081754.html
• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110817175918.htm
• http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2011/08/uppity-computers-to-judge-social-traits.html
• http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/breaking-news-all-topics/computers-will-be-able-to-tell-social-traits-from-the-face-page-2-1_111563.html
• http://prensalider.blogspot.com/2011/08/investigadores-espanoles-crean-una.html
• http://noticierodiario.com.ar/en/una-herramienta-informatica-capaz-de-identificar-a-las-personas-atractivas-o-amenazadoras/
• http://www.periodistadigital.com/ciencia/ser-humano/2011/08/18/investigadores-espanoles-crean-herramienta-informatica-que-identifica-a-las-personas-atractivas-o-amenazadoras.shtml
• http://www.planetaurbe.tv/_Una-mquina-lee-en-tu-rostro-si-eres-atractivo-dominante-o-tacao/blog/5052945/177686.html
• http://www.salamanca24horas.com/local/51904-una-herramienta-informatica-capaz-de-identificar-a-las-personas-atractivas-o-amenazadoras
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20093829-1/software-can-tell-if-youre-mean-and-ugly/
• http://naukawpolsce.pl/palio/html.run?_Instance=cms_naukapl.pap.pl&_PageID=1&s=szablon.depesza&dz=szablon.depesza&dep=384158&data=&lang=PL&_CheckSum=1918119692

Newspapers and Journals:

• http://www.ara.cat/xarxes/Investigadors-UAB-desenvolupen-informatica-amenacadores_0_538746301.html
• http://www.lavozdecataratas.com/noticia_26632.html
• http://www.diariodecuyo.com.ar/home/new_noticia.php?noticia_id=475816
• http://www.muyinteresante.es/una-maquina-lee-en-tu-rostro-si-eres-atractivo-dominante-o-tacano
• http://www.laopinioncoruna.es/sociedad/2011/08/19/software-juzga-cara/524628.html
• http://www.elcomercio.es/20110819/mas-actualidad/tecnologia/investigadores-espanoles-crean-herramienta-201108191247.html
• http://www.elcorreo.com/vizcaya/rc/20110827/tecnologia/palabras-tecnologia-maquina-rostro-201108260920.html

TV & Radio Stations:

• http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20094078-501465.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CBSNewsWebMD+%28CBS+News%3A+Health%3A+WebMD%29
• http://www.telecinco.es/informativos/sociedad/noticia/3897081/
• Radio Nacional Vasca.
• Cadena COPE  http://www.cope.es/el-plan-c/audio-te-decimos-si-eres-atractivo-o-no-120681
• RTVE.
• TeleMadrid.