Quantifying facial colour appearance of Caucasian and Chinese faces

This research is aimed to better understand human perception of skin colour and quantify the overall colour appearance of human faces. In this study, a colour matching experiment was conducted and the overall facial colour appearance of 80 facial images, including 40 Caucasian faces and 40 Chinese faces, were obtained. The main finding of this study is that the overall facial colour appearance is different from the average colour in facial area at a very significant level (p0.912). The results will be used in further study to test colour appearance models for facial skin, and to support studies predicting facial attractiveness based on the accurate facial colour appearance.