A Preliminary Study on Asian Male Face Classification Based on Personal Attractive Preference

Abstract

This paper describes a preliminary study of the Asian male face classification based on personal attractive preference. Face classification based on attractiveness in male has been lacking attention. Some of the conventional methods are gender and ethnicity specific and are not able to handle male faces and faces from other ethnicity group without modification. In this paper, we experiment on Asian male face classification based on personal attractive preference using separate eigenface reconstruction method. Result shows that the separate eigenface reconstruction method is able to handle male faces and achieves averaged accuracy ranging from 6.8% to 18.8% when compared to and Turkmen, respectively, with 95% confidence level according to Wilcoxon signed-rank test. conventional methods Eisenthal and Turkmen, respectively, with 95% confidence level according to Wilcoxon signed-rank test.