Automatic location of facial landmarks for plastic surgery procedures

Plastic surgeons need to collect a great amount of data to perform preoperative analysis before taking any decisions about the appropriate surgical procedures. There are several metrics, based on soft-tissue facial landmarks, to define which procedures should be taken into account when planning a plastic surgery. This work proposes a novel automatic method to locate and identify facial points in profile images via analysis based on the feature of each point, aiming to help collecting data for planning plastic surgery procedures. The method was tested and the results show that the automatic location could be used to provide data to aesthetic analysis.