The Bogazici face database: Standardized photographs of Turkish faces with supporting materials

PLoS One. 2018 Feb 14;13(2):e0192018. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192018. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

Many sets of human facial photographs produced in Western cultures are available for scientific research. We report here on the development of a face database of Turkish undergraduate student targets. High-resolution standardized photographs were taken and supported by the following materials: (a) basic demographic and appearance-related information, (b) two types of landmark configurations (for Webmorph and geometric morphometrics (GM)), (c) facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) measurement, (d) information on photography parameters, (e) perceptual norms provided by raters. We also provide various analyses and visualizations of facial variation based on rating norms using GM. Finally, we found that there is sexual dimorphism in fWHR in our sample but that this is accounted for by body mass index. We present the pattern of associations between rating norms, GM and fWHR measurements. The database and supporting materials are freely available for scientific research purposes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anthropometry
  • Databases, Factual*
  • Face*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Photography*
  • Sex Characteristics
  • Turkey

Grants and funding

The research was funded by a 2219 research grant (no: 1059B191600901) from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) to S. Adil Saribay. Karel Kleisner was supported by Czech Science Foundation project 18-10298S. Vít Třebický was supported by Czech Republic Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports NPU I program (No. LO1611). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.