Howells in Caricature

A Definition of Caricature and Caricature and Recognition

Caricature video

We make moving caricatures from videos on human faces. Using training images, we created a 3D model of an average face. This allows us to transform the image in each frame of an input video, so that it is seen from the front. Then we apply 2D exaggeration rules to caricature each face. Finally, we rotate the face in each frame back to its original position. A panel of viewers gave positive scor...

Caricature and face recognition.

Although caricatures are often gross distortions of faces, they frequently appear to be super-portraits capable of eliciting recognition better than veridical depictions. This may occur because faces are encoded as distinctive feature deviations from a prototype. The exaggeration of these deviations in a caricature may enhance recognition because it emphasizes the features of the face that are ...

Howells' craniometric data on the Internet.

This note has to do with availability to others of my database of cranial measurements, compiled from 1965 t o 1980 and treated by me in three monographs (1973, 1989, 1995.) The Anthropology Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has undertaken to supply it to qualified users. This is a particularly satisfactory arrangement, given their facilities and the special qualifications a...

An unrecorded William Allen caricature?

A CARICATURE relating to the marriage of William Allen, F.R.S., (1770-1843) to Grizell Birkbeck, widow of Wilson Birkbeck, has recently come to light. It bears the title 'THE ATTRACTION OF GRAVITY !!!, the space being filled with a plough (Allen's pharmacy was in Plough Court, Lombard Street, London) and the subheading: 'Eye Natures walks shoot Folly as it flies'. This coloured engraving, by an...