OmniFace: Skin Tone and Faces in Artworks

An Information Visualization Project that aims at providing users with an application to analyze portraits of the OmniArt dataset regarding to skin color and facial landmarks overtime

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OmniFace Analyzer - Explore Faces From Portraits And Their Skin Color Over Time

Welcome to the OmniFace Analyzer, a multi-view analyzer that allows you to understand how artists have chosen people's skin color using three different views. On the left side you can see the distribution of the different skin colors. On the right side you will find the average representative face selected according to the current face filter displayed below. Here you can choose between the dimensions gender, age and colour group. If you want to get a deeper insight you can also browse the left diagram with the dataset filter. You can also toggle between the average face and facial landmarks and explore the most similar faces below the average face.

View Facial Landmarks

Most similar faces from left to right:

Heat map

The heat map on the left shows for every period within the corresponding century the most dominant color group. For this visualization the skin color space has been divided into 200 groups. A pattern can be extracted from the visualization, namely that darker colors were more frequent during earlier times and yellow in the later times. These results can be explained by the artists exercising its artistic freedom of how a person can be portrayed.

Explore

Below every single portrait can be found with the now selected filters. When hovering over the portrait, one can obtain more information about the art-work.