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    • Facial skin gloss significantly impacts perceived skin appearance and health.
    • Objective, quantitative methods for evaluating skin gloss are lacking.
    • Existing methods often fail to correlate with human perception.

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    • To develop objective, image-based techniques for quantitative evaluation of facial skin gloss.
    • To establish consistency between quantitative gloss measurements and human judgments.
    • To differentiate the contributions of surface and subsurface reflections to perceived gloss.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized polarization photography to capture separate surface and subsurface reflection images of facial skin.
    • Conducted psychophysical studies to gather human gloss perception data.
    • Applied photometric transformations to generate diverse skin appearances.
    • Employed linear regression to correlate image statistics with perceived gloss.

    Main Results:

    • Surface reflection contrast strongly positively influences perceived skin gloss.
    • Subsurface reflection darkness (skin tone) weakly positively influences perceived gloss.
    • A regression model combining reflection statistics accurately predicts relative gloss differences within subjects.

    Conclusions:

    • Objective, image-based evaluation of facial skin gloss is feasible and correlates with human perception.
    • Polarization photography effectively separates reflection components influencing gloss.
    • Quantitative analysis of surface and subsurface reflections provides insights into skin appearance.