Digital Facial Anthropometry: Application and Implementation

Abstract

It is examined how to use digital facial anthropometry for scientific and practical problems; from biometry up to its different applications including medicine, biology, genetics, pattern recognition, and criminalistics. The presented review includes a brief history of anthropometry (as a descriptive and comparative science, the subject of investigation of which is Homo sapiens) and its transformation into modern computer methods for facial anthropometry. Concepts on face morphotype and phenotype; problems on morphology and morphometry as a basic means of facial digital anthropometry; quantitative and qualitative methods for estimating facial characteristics and parameters; problems for searching for associations between gene patterns in the genome and a man’s facial features; problems for estimating facial attractiveness; correlation between facial anthropometry and “Chernov’s faces” and with cognitive computer graphics used in practical medicine; human facial phenomenon and the problems with emotions, sex, and psychical type recognition; special cases for recognizing facial images (FIs), and methods for their solutions in the frames of digital facial anthropometry and examples of its solution are presented in the paper. The prediction on the close correlation between facial anthropometry and the Internet of Things as a modern world surrounded by a person in the 21st century is determined.