BACKGROUND The aesthetically appealing eyebrow shape has been defined by its arch, located near the junction between the medial two-thirds and lateral one-third. The position of this arch has been historically described by arbitrary anatomical landmarks that have no logical structural relationship. Moreover, selection of endoscopic brow lift incision sites that define vector of pull and fixatio...

Eyebrows constitute a very important and prominent feature of the face. With growing information, eyebrow transplant has become a popular procedure. However, though it is a small area it requires a lot of precision and knowledge regarding anatomy, designing of brows, extraction and implantation technique. This article gives a comprehensive view regarding eyebrow transplant with special emphasis...

Against the background that recent studies on embodied conversational agents demonstrate the importance of their behavior, an experimental study is presented that assessed the effects of different nonverbal behaviors of an embodied conversational agent on the users ́ experiences and evaluations as well as on their behavior. 50 participants conducted a conversation with different versions of the ...

We report our experience with a supraorbital eyebrow minicraniotomy. This technique is suitable to lesions situated in the region of the anterior fossa, suprasellar cisterns, parasellar region and Sylvian fissure. A 50 mm incision in the eyebrow and a supraorbital minicraniotomy is performed. Sixteem patients harboring different lesions were operated on with good postoperative and cosmetic resu...

The timing of both eyebrow and head movements of a talking face was varied systematically in a test sentence using an audiovisual speech synthesizer. The audio speech signal was unchanged over all sentences. 33 listeners were given the task of identifying the most prominent word in the test sentence. Results indicate that both eyebrow and head movements are powerful visual cues for prominence a...

A real time face recognition architecture using minimum number of face-measurements is presented in this paper. The measurements that we have taken are – neck width, eyebrow width, distance between eyebrow and eyeball, eyeball width, amount of black points in the eyebrow and eyeball regions and amount of forehead. In this paper we have presented an algorithm which is able to recognize faces wit...

The Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG) publishes recommendations regarding one-to-one facial comparisons. At this moment a draft version of a facial image comparison feature list for morphological analysis has been published. This feature list is based on casework experience by forensic facial examiners. This paper investigates whether the performance of the FISWG eyebrow fe...