Subjective Visual Perception

People form quick, consistent impressions of faces, judging traits like trustworthiness or dominance in a glance. We model these subjective judgements directly, building methods that transform faces along perceived traits and testing whether vision-language models reproduce the same human-like biases.

Publications

Understanding Human-Like Biases in VLMs via Subjective Face Analytics

Chaitanya Roygaga, Aparna Bharati

2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)  ·  06 Mar 2026  ·  doi:10.1109/WACV61042.2026.00058

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Subjective Face Transform using Human First Impressions

Chaitanya Roygaga, Joshua Krinsky, Kai Zhang, Kenny Kwok, Aparna Bharati

arXiv  ·  19 Mar 2025  ·  arxiv:2309.15381

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