For my database, I decided to use the average faces from different countries instead of the real faces database. I found all those average faces online, and most of them are created with the with the Galton’s method(also called composite portraiture) which was devised by Sir Francis Galton in the 1800s. When Sir Francis Galton created those average faces he was doing a study about anthropology and statistics. Around 100 years later this database has been used by the psychologists to study the psychology of facial attractiveness, according to that the average faces are considered more attractive. Which means people that look like the average faces tend to be more attractive.
part of my database
For my database, I only needed the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and part of the faces since my program is designed to detect just this area of the face. Thus, I cropped all the average faces into the format I needed like the pictures above. (squared images less than 30kb that included eyes, nose, mouth, ears)
References:
http://faceresearch.org/students/averageness
http://faceresearch.org/students/averageness