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The Analysis of Facial Beauty: An Emerging Area of Research in Pattern Analysis

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Much research presented recently supports the idea that the human perception of attractiveness is data-driven and largely irrespective of the perceiver. This suggests using pattern analysis techniques for beauty analysis. Several scientific papers on this subject are appearing in image processing, computer vision and pattern analysis contexts, or use techniques of these areas. In this paper, we will survey the recent studies on automatic analysis of facial beauty, and discuss research lines and practical applications.

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Bottino, A., Laurentini, A. (2010). The Analysis of Facial Beauty: An Emerging Area of Research in Pattern Analysis. In: Campilho, A., Kamel, M. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13772-3_43

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