Cognitive and computational aspects of face recognition

Tim Valentine

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...

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