To determine the time course of face recognition and its links to face-sensitive event-related potential (ERP) components, ERPs elicited by faces of famous individuals and ERPs to non-famous control faces were compared in a task that required explicit judgements of facial identity. As expected, the face-selective N170 component was unaffected by the difference between famous and non-famous face...

In this paper, we propose a heterogeneous committee machine for face processing including face detection and recognition. Our proposed system consists of two components, Face Detection Committee Machine (FDCM) and Face Recognition Committee Machine (FRCM), which employs three and five well-known state-of-the-art approaches respectively. We engage different methodologies to solve the face detect...

This paper describes the detection of faces in complex backgrounds where their sizes, positions and directions are arbitrary. We detect the faces by extracting face components such as eyes, a mouth and so on. We first extract face features and then calculate their likelihoods as each face component. Second we detect the face features which satisfy geometrical relations of the face. In order to ...

The face recognition problem is difficult by the great change in facial expression, head rotation and tilt, lighting intensity and angle, aging, partial occlusion (e.g. Wearing Hats, scarves, glasses etc.), etc. The Eigenfaces algorithm has long been a mainstay in the field of face recognition and the face space has high dimension. Principal components from the face space are used for face reco...

Built on the principles of “Learning from Nature” and “Self-organization” Elastic Bunch Graph Matching for face recognition is a defining example for Organic Computing methodology. Here, we follow these principles further to advance the method in two respects. First, the requirement for manual annotation of landmarks is reduced to one single face, from which a self-organizing selection process ...

Sex classiication of faces 2 Abstract The sex of a face is perhaps its most salient feature. A principal components analysis (PCA) was applied separately to the three-dimensional structure and graylevel image data from laser-scanned human heads. Individual components from both analyses captured information related to the sex of the face. Notably, single projection coeecients characterized compl...

The goal of face hallucination is to generate highresolution images with fidelity from low-resolution ones. In contrast to existing methods based on patch similarity or holistic constraints in the image space, we propose to exploit local image structures for face hallucination. Each face image is represented in terms of facial components, contours and smooth regions. The image structure is main...

The temporal sequence of neural processes supporting figure-ground perception was investigated by recording ERPs associated with subjects' perceptions of the face-vase figure. In Experiment 1, subjects continuously reported whether they perceived the face or the vase as the foreground figure by pressing one of two buttons. Each button press triggered a probe flash to the face region, the vase r...

Understanding the developmental origins of face recognition has been the goal of many studies of various approaches. Contributions of experience-expectant mechanisms (early component), like perceptual narrowing, and lifetime experience (late component) to face processing remain elusive. By investigating captive chimpanzees of varying age, a rare case of a species with lifelong exposure to non-c...