The concept of beauty is closely linked to gender in contemporary society; in this study, the concept of beauty was explored by the use of phenomenological techniques. For this purpose, an in-depth semi-structured interview was conducted among 35 young female students in Tehran. the sample of study was chosen by theoretical sampling model and the interviews were continued up to the point of  ga...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic, age-related, neurodegenerative disorder and the commonest cause of dementia in the elderly. It typically starts with the insidious onset of memory impairment and gradually progresses to affect multiple aspects of cognitive function. Behavioural and psychological symptoms occur frequently in the disease. In life, there are no specific diagnostic tests for A...

In this paper, we present the system that aids people in wearing makeup easily and make the process enjoyable. The proposed system is the “Smart Makeup Mirror” device, which is an electronic dressing table that facilitates the process of makeup application. In this system, we place a high-resolution camera on top of a computer display. We developed some functions such as “Automatic zoom to a sp...

Many women wear facial makeup to accentuate their appeal and attractiveness. Makeup may vary from natural (light) to glamorous (heavy), depending of the context of interpersonal situations, an emphasis on femininity, and current societal makeup trends. This study examined how light makeup and heavy makeup influenced attractiveness ratings and facial recognition. In a rating task, 38 Japanese wo...

In this paper, we propose a novel Deep Localized Makeup Transfer Network to automatically recommend the most suitable makeup for a female and synthesis the makeup on her face. Given a before-makeup face, her most suitable makeup is determined automatically. Then, both the beforemakeup and the reference faces are fed into the proposed Deep Transfer Network to generate the after-makeup face. Our ...

The effects of makeup on attractiveness have been evaluated using mainly subjective measures. In this study, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from a total of 45 Japanese women (n = 23 and n = 22 for Experiment 1 and 2, respectively) to examine the neural processing of faces with no makeup, light makeup, and heavy makeup. To have the participants look at each face carefully, a...

Finding the best makeup for a given human face is an art in its own right. Experienced makeup artists train for years to be skilled enough to propose a best-fit makeup for an individual. In this work we propose a system that automates this task. We acquired the appearance of 56 human faces, both without and with professional makeup. To this end, we use a controlled-light setup, which allows to ...

A gender and skin color ethnicity based automatic digital makeup system is presented. An automatic face makeup system which applies example based digital makeup based on skin ethnicity color and gender type. One major advantage of the system is that the makeup is based on the skin color and gender type, which is very necessary for an effective makeup. Another strong advantage is that it applies...

This study aims to acquire the vocabulary of cosmetics and makeup techniques used for searching an intended scene from movies. When applying cosmetics, it is necessary appropriately select a set by considering individual preferences, affective senses, physical constitutions. Makeup movies are gaining popularity as reference information becoming crucial traditional media. Currently, people retri...