Face distance measures?

[gumbald]

Google is failing me, so I'm turning to the lovely OcUK community in the hope that someone might be able to point me in a direction.

I'm doing my CS Masters project on 3D facial feature recognition and have built up a series of statistics of distance measures between certain points... However, I would like to link these to actual studies related to biology or whatever. So, does anybody doing something biology related know of anywhere I might be able to get statistics, such as the distance between the eyes? Google is only turning up CS-related papers on facial recognition, rather than independent studies.

 

[adeyman]

I don't really understand what it is you're looking for. Do you want a paper which examined a load of peoples faces to produce average dimensions or a paper which discusses how people recognise faces using information like feature size and spacing? If it's the latter, this may be of use:

http://psy.ucsd.edu/~hflowe/FeatureConfigReviewPaper.pdf

I did my final year CS paper on 'Computational Algorithms to Predict Facial Attractiveness in Human Beings' and have a few references to face perception (as well as beauty perception obviously).

 

[gumbald]

Thanks!

I would ideally like something that examined ratios between features or such, or differences between facial spacings between races perhaps.

However, that link will be useful as I need to introduce the idea of what features there are to recognise, by relating it to what humans have the ability to pick out. I'm using statistics entirely derived from a training set, but would like to relate this to some kind of reality...