近年來隨著智慧型手機的興起，使得自拍風氣非常盛行。然而，不是人人都能拍出好看的自拍照。因此我們提出一個虛擬攝影師的想法，在自拍時幫助使用者調出好看的自拍角度。首先，我們從6,785張好看的自拍照中擷取出頭部旋轉角度以及臉部特徵點，並以此設計了45個比例特徵。為了要找出好看的自拍特徵，我們將此問題轉化為關聯式法則學習問題，並利用先驗演算法找出高頻項目集以及關聯規則，作為推薦來源。最後，我們提出了五種推薦策略，分別針對水平和垂直方向上做調整推薦。在實驗中，我們使用50張台灣素人女性自拍照當作測試資料，並設計問卷來蒐集攝影師對於這些自拍照片的調整建議作為真值資料。我們使用卡帕值評估五種策略分別在水平方向及垂直方向上的推薦表現。實驗結果顯示，在水平方向上攝影師間並沒有一致性，顯示好看的自拍於水平方向調整較難有共識，但在垂直方向的推薦與攝影師提供的建議有一般一致性。

With smartphones becoming popular in recent years, an increasing number of people like to take selfies using their phone. However, taking a good selfie is not easy for everyone. In this study, we develop “Virtual Photographer”—a software program that helps users adjust the head pose to a better angle for taking selfies. First, we extract the head pose and facial landmarks from 6,785 good selfies, upon which we compute 45 ratio features for each selfie. Next, we apply an Association Rule Learning method to discover frequent itemsets and association rules, which are then considered as the recommended sources. Finally, we propose five recommendation strategies that give the horizontal and vertical adjustments in head pose. To evaluate the proposed method, we use 50 selfies (all are Taiwanese women) as our test samples and collect the ground truth data of the pose adjustment from several professional photographers. We use Kappa value to report the vertical and horizontal consistency of the ground truth data and the results of the proposed five strategies. The experimental results show that the photographers had no agreement on the horizontal adjustment, which implies it is difficult to design an approach that is consistent with all of the photographers. However, the proposed strategies have fair consistency on the vertical adjustment with a majority of the photographers.

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