Computational Determination of Human Beauty Through Face Recognition Algorithms and Geometrical Analysis

Each individual has different perception of what beautiful is and everybody wants to be called beautiful. Nowadays, if someone thinks she is ugly it is not a problem as long as she has money. Everyday, the numbers of individuals who have plastic or cosmetic surgeries are increasing and it is well accepted by the society. In fact, teenagers were enumerable than adults. According to the ASPS, over 333,000 people 18 years and younger had plastic surgery in 2005, up from about 306,000 in 2000. (http://www.kidshealth.org)

There are different ways how to judge a person’s beauty. Some will look at the physical attributes of a person while others look on the personality. But surgeons like Dr. Sherrell J. Aston, professor of surgery at New York University believed that a beautiful face is symmetrical, proportional and harmonious. (http://abcnews.go.com)

This research is about integrating facial recognition technology in identifying whether a person is beautiful or not. Humans have always had the innate ability to recognize and distinguish between faces, yet computers only recently have shown the same ability. Facial recognition began during 1964 and 1965 when Bledsoe, along with Helen Chan and Charles Bisson worked on using the computer to recognize human faces. Given a large database of images and a photograph, the problem was to select from the database a small set of records such that one of the image records matched the photograph. (www.en.wikipedia.org)

The researchers believe that it is possible to design an intelligent computer

system that can identify the areas of a person’s face which needs enhancement or

which needs correction.