Extracting the symmetry of the human face from digital photographs

• Autorzy: Renero-C F. J. , Romero-H R. A. , Peregrina-B H.

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DOI

10.1515/bams-2017-0002

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

By defining a midline and selecting six pairs of the landmarks of the human face on digital photographs, we extracted the symmetry of the human face by means of digital techniques. As a first approach to the symmetry of the human face, the distances and the tilts from the midline, between similar landmarks, were computed and averaged, respectively. The procrustes analysis and the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), applied on patches on the six pairs of the landmarks of the human face, were used as a second approach to the symmetry of the human face. To have a better estimation of the symmetry of the whole human face, the photographs in grayscale and color were cut on pairs of strips, equally spaced from the midline, and then the strips were compared by the HOG feature extractor. The symmetry of the human face was extracted from 89 photographs of human faces (37 females and 52 males, ages 28.67 } 6.65 and 35.65 } 12.2 years, respectively). The HOG feature extractor applied on strips for the photographs in color and grayscale provided more confident values for the symmetry of the human face, which was well correlated with the assigned value by the photographers and physiotherapists. Also, an experiment was performed to evaluate the attractiveness as a function of the human face symmetry; thus, two groups of men and women were asked to sort digital photographs of women and men according to the attractiveness of women/men on the photographs. The results show that the most selected digital photographs were those with the highest symmetry scores.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

HOG; human face symmetry; procrustes

• Wydawca: Uniwersytet Jagielloński - Collegium Medicum ; Index Copernicus Sp. z o.o.
• Czasopismo: Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems
• Rocznik: 2017
• Tom: Vol. 13, no. 2
• Strony: 103--109
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 17 poz., rys., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Renero-C F. J.

• Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, Luis Enrique Erro No. 1, Santa María Tonatzintla, 72840 Puebla, Pue., Mexico

autor

Romero-H R. A.

• Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, Puebla, Pue., Mexico

autor

Peregrina-B H.

• Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, Puebla, Pue., Mexico

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