Assessing facial beauty through proportion analysis by image processing and supervised learning

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1184-1199

  Gunes, Hatice ^a   Piccardi, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Facial beauty classification; Facial features; Facial Thirds; Golden Proportion; Observer agreement; Performance evaluation; Proportion analysis; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SURGERY;

FACIAL BEAUTY CLASSIFICATION; FACIAL FEATURES; FACIAL THIRDS; GOLDEN PROPORTION; OBSERVER AGREEMENTS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PROPORTION ANALYSIS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33751081288     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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