Development of Automatic Makeup Remover Device

Abstract

Makeup is an essential part of a woman's daily life. Most women wear make-up every day and remove it before going to bed. However, when they are tired, they sometimes go to bed without removing their makeup. Wearing make-up at bedtime not only leads to dullness and stiffness of the skin due to the accumulation of unwanted dead skin cells, but also causes the skin to lose its elasticity and sagging. Therefore, if we can remove makeup automatically and without hassle, we can remove it and keep the skin clean even when it is tired. Although research on devices for applying make-up has been conducted, no research has been done on devices for removing make-up. Therefore, we develop a device to remove make-up on behalf of fatigued women. The purpose of this study is to automate the act of removing make-up to solve skin problems and keep the skin clean. Based on previous research on make-up application devices, we review the mechanism and improve the performance of our previously developed device. Specifically, a camera module is added to the device we have made so far, and the state of the makeup is evaluated by image processing. This system uses a USB video class (UVC) camera and a PC (personal computer) to detect the state of the applied make-up based on the differences in the face images before and after applying it.