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

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 2; p. e0192018
• Main Authors: Saribay, S Adil, Biten, Ali Furkan, Meral, Erdem Ozan, Aldan, Pinar, Třebický, Vít, Kleisner, Karel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 14.02.2018; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Age differences; Behavior; Biology and Life Sciences; Body mass; Body mass index; Body size; Demographics; Face recognition (Psychology); Internet; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mental health; Morphometry; Norms; People and Places; Photography; Professional hockey; Research and Analysis Methods; Researchers; Scientific research; Sexual dimorphism; Social perception; Social psychology; Social science research; Social Sciences; Turkey; Istanbul Turkey; Czech Republic
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192018

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.