Physiognomy in New Era: A Survey of Automatic Personality Prediction Based on Facial Image

At present, personality computing technology facilitates the understanding, prediction, and management of human behavior. With the increasing importance of faces in personal daily assessments, establishing a relationship between facial morphological features and personality traits is a major breakthrough in personality computing technology. This paper is a survey of such technology of automatic personality prediction based on face and it aims at providing not only a solid knowledge base about the state-of-the-art in automatic personality prediction, but also to provide a conceptual model of automatic personality prediction, based on the literature. In addition, the analysis of the prediction results of the existing researches is emphasized, and there are still problems in the field, such as lack of information on research data, single age group of the sample population, incomplete design characteristics of the artificial design etc., and the potential applications and development directions are determined.