Facial markers of body composition are frequently studied in evolutionary psychology and are important in computational and forensic face recognition. We assessed the association of body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) with facial shape and texture (color pattern) in a sample of young Middle European women by a combination of geometric morphometrics and image analysis. Faces of wo...

Human pigmentation, including eye color, has been associated with skin cancer risk. The P gene is the human homologue to the mouse pink-eye dilution locus and is responsible for oculocutaneous albinism type 2 and other phenotypes that confer eye hypopigmentation. The P gene is located on chromosome 15q11.2-q12, which is also the location of a putative eye pigmentation gene (EYCL3) inferred to e...

Images of a scene captured with multiple cameras have different color values due to variations in capture and color rendering across devices. We present a method to accurately retrieve color information from uncalibrated images taken under uncontrolled lighting conditions with an unknown device and no access to raw data, but with a limited number of reference colors in the scene. The method is ...

Biometric Authentication works on some human characteristics, such as, finger print, voice, pattern of lines in the iris of eye or face. I represent a multiple face detection method based on skin color information and the Lines of Separability (LS) face model and recognition method based on principle component analysis and neural network. Face detection method uses YCbCr color model and sigma c...

Face detection is an important topic in many applications. Variation of illumination and pose in addition to existence occlusion and orientation decrease the algorithm performance. These factors change global facial appearance. Using component-based methods, we can overcome the referred problems. Because of face components are less affected by these factors. In this paper, we propose a novel co...

Human face detection has become a major field of interest in current research because there is no deterministic algorithm to find face(s) in a given image. Further the algorithms that exist are very much specific to the kind of images they would take as input and detect faces. The problem is to detect faces in the given, colored group photograph. This paper proposes a novel technique for detect...

Using data from the New Immigrant Survey 2003, this article shows that skin color and height affect wages among new lawful immigrants to the United States, controlling for education, English language proficiency, occupation in source country, family background, ethnicity, race, and country of birth. Immigrants with the lightest skin color earn on average 17% more than comparable immigrants with...