About the Authors

Chihiro Tanikawa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Sadaki Takata

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Fashion & Beauty Sciences, Osaka Shoin Women’s University, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Ruriko Takano

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Corporate Culture Department, Shiseido Co., ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Haruna Yamanami

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Shiseido Global Innovation Center, Shiseido Co., ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Zere Edlira

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Kenji Takada

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

denkt@nus.edu.sg

Affiliations Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors declare the following interest: "This work was partially supported by Shiseido Co., ltd. ST, RT, and HY are employed by Shiseido Co., ltd. Further, the funder (Shiseido Co., ltd.) and Osaka University have submitted a patent application based on the results of the present study (Device, method, program, and system for determining three-dimensional facial form, PCT/JP2019/012719). This does not alter our adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.