Fourier power spectrum characteristics of face photographs: attractiveness perception depends on low-level image properties.

ABSTRACT: We investigated whether low-level processed image properties that are shared by natural scenes and artworks - but not veridical face photographs - affect the perception of facial attractiveness and age. Specifically, we considered the slope of the radially averaged Fourier power spectrum in a log-log plot. This slope is a measure of the distribution of special frequency power in an image. Images of natural scenes and artworks possess - compared to face images - a relatively shallow slope (i.e., increased high spatial frequency power). Since aesthetic perception might be based on the efficient processing of images with natural scene statistics, we assumed that the perception of facial attractiveness might also be affected by these properties. We calculated Fourier slope and other beauty-ass

SUBMITTER: Menzel C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4383417 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature