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Cognitive and computational aspects of face recognition : explorations in face space

Title
Cognitive and computational aspects of face recognition : explorations in face space / edited by Tim Valentine.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

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  • Valentine, Tim, 1959-
  • British Psychological Society. Welsh Branch.
  • International Conference on Face Processing (1993 : Cardiff, Wales)
Description
xviii, 231 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  • How can computers recognize faces? Why are caricatures of famous faces so easily recognized?
  • Much of the past research on face recognition has been phenomena driven. Recent empirical work together with the application of computational, mathematical and statistical techniques have provided new ways of conceptualizing the information available in faces. These advances have led researchers to suggest that many phenomena can be explained by the structure of the information available in the population(s) of faces.
  • This broad approach has drawn together a number of apparently disparate phenomena with a common theoretical basis, including cross-race recognition; the distinctiveness of faces; the production and recognition of caricatures; and the determinants of facial attractiveness. Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Face Recognition provides a state of the art review of the field in which the authors use a wide variety of approaches.
  • What is common to all is that the authors base the accounts of the phenomena they study or their model of face recognition on the statistics of the information available in the population of faces.
  • Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Face Recognition is a comprehensive, up-to-date review of an important area of research in face recognition written by active researchers. It includes contributions from mathematics, computer science and neural network theory as well as psychology. It is aimed at research workers and postgraduate students and will be of interest to cognitive psychologists and computer scientists interested in face recognition.
  • It will also be of interest to those working on neural network models of visual recognition, perceptual development, expertise in visual cognition as well as facial attractiveness and caricature.
Series Statement
International library of psychology
Uniform Title
International library of psychology.
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Note
  • Chiefly papers presented at the International Conference on Face Processing held in Cardiff, Wales, Sept. 1993.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The development of face recognition / Robert A. Johnston and Hadyn D. Ellis -- 2. Expertise and the caricature advantage / Sarah V. Stevenage -- 3. Face recognition and configural coding / Gillian Rhodes -- 4. An account of the own-race bias and the contact hypothesis based on a 'face space' model of face recognition / Tim Valentine, Patrick Chiroro and Ruth Dixon -- 5. Distinctiveness and memory for unfamiliar faces / Judith A. Hosie and Alan B. Milne -- 6. Memorability, familiarity and categorical structure in the recognition of faces / John R. Vokey and J. Don Read -- 7. Missing dimensions of distinctiveness / Vicki Bruce, A. Mike Burton and Peter J. Hancock -- 8. A perceptual learning theory of the information in faces / Alice J. O'Toole, Herve Abdi, Kenneth A. Deffenbacher and Dominique Valentin -- 9. A manifold model of face and object recognition / Ian Craw -- 10. Perspectives on face perception. Directing research by exploiting emergent prototypes / Philip J. Benson.
ISBN
0415114934
LCCN
94041142
OCLC
  • 31605175
  • ocm31605175
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries