MM 2016, ACM on Multimedia Conference, October 15-19, 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Flickr allows its users to generate galleries of "faves", i.e., pictures that they have tagged as favourite. According to recent studies, the faves are predictive of the personality traits that people attribute to Flickr users. This article investigates the phenomenon and shows that faves allow one to predict whether a Flickr user is perceived to be above median or not with respect to each of the Big-Five Traits (accuracy up to 79\% depending on the trait). The classifier - based on Gaussian Processes with a new kernel designed for this work - allows one to identify the visual characteristics of faves that better account for the prediction outcome.
Type:
Conference
City:
Amsterdam
Date:
2016-10-15
Department:
Data Science
Eurecom Ref:
5018
Copyright:
© ACM, 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in MM 2016, ACM on Multimedia Conference, October 15-19, 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2964284.2967253
