Facial Attractiveness

In this project, we wish to analyze 3 aspects of facial attractiveness and how people judge various faces on the grounds of these 3 features, confirming work done by our references and analysis to discover something new. There have been studies to relate attractiveness with facial features in the past. People have taken specific points under consideration like estimated age by looking at photo, expressions, physique like fat, thin, sallow, skin color etc. We wish to examine the work firstly on symmetry [1], [2], then on averageness [3], and finally on sexually dimorphic features [7]. Facial symmetry shall be studied based on experiments recording the audience’s response on normal faces and those against symmetry mapped faces of the same image. Averageness will be considered with rating pictures of a person individually vs their aggregate picture and with an average of all pictures under the experiment. Sexually dimorphic features will involve comparison between images of the same person under different features such as feminized and masculinized version of same face etc.