ABSTRACT
Beauty, particularly of the human face, has fascinated human beings from the very dawn of mankind, inspiring countless artists, poets, and philosophers. Numerous psychological studies find high cross-cultural agreement in facial attractiveness ratings among raters from different ethnicities, socioeconomic classes, ages, and gender [1], [2], [3], [4], indicating that facial beauty is a universal notion, transcending the boundaries between different cultures. These studies suggest that the perception of facial attractiveness is data-driven; the properties of a particular set of facial features are the same irrespective of the perceiver.
