Abstract:

Skin as a barrier, is of great significance for the beauty and protection of human. A review of the research and application on the information in skin research was presented. It presents the correlation between skin index and body state, evaluation, prediction and decision making methods of cosmetics for the skin care to assist skin diagnosis and treatment system development and so on. The further research contents are also prospected, which include the characteristics of various skin evaluation methods, prediction and decision-making algorithms. And the correlation study of skin indexes with the human health and skin areas of concern is an important basis of the research and development of skin detection and analysis system, which highlight the role of informatization in helping the development of application fields. With the development of information, image, data and expert experiences are easier to obtain, analysis and store in computer than before, which makes it possible for the information technology to carry out the comprehensive evaluation, prediction and decision-making of skin index and state objectively and systematically. Skin research is complex, which could be influenced by many factors such as climate, region, sleeping and so on. In the future, skin informatization would integrate machine learning to mine the nonlinear correlation between research problems and indexes horizontally, extract the time evolution rules of index vertically, and make intelligent decision-making by experts and consumers cooperating. Data and image information will improve the study performance of the skin deeply and widely.

Key words: skin, correlation, evaluation, prediction, decision making, image, skin detection and analysis system