January 2012 - Face-research-list - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Fwd: [visionlist] A New Image Database: UB KinFace Database
by Rachel Robbins 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

This came from Visionlist, but for anyone who is not on that list I thought this might be useful information. Rachel Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:16:05 -0500 From: "Yun (Raymond) Fu" <yunfu(a)buffalo.edu> Subject: [visionlist] A New Image Database: UB KinFace Database To: visionlist(a)visionscience.com Message-ID: <4F15E515.9010206(a)buffalo.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" A new image database--UB KinFace Database--is currently online available. http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~yunfu/research/Kinface/Kinface.htm <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/%7Eyunfu/research/Kinface/Kinface.htm> UB KinFace database is used to develop, test, and evaluate kinship verification and recognition algorithms. It comprises 600 images of 400 people which can be separated into 200 groups. Each group is composed of child, young parent and old parent images. Most of images in the database are real-world collections of public figures (celebrities and politicians) from Internet. -- Yun (Raymond) Fu Dr. and Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo 331 Davis Hall Buffalo, NY 14260-2500, USA Ph: +1 (716) 645 2670 Email:yunfu@buffalo.edu Web:http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~yunfu/ -- You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give. -Winston Churchill.

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Mooney Faces
by H.Ness 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi everyone, I'm looking for some Mooney Face stimuli to use in an experiment. If anyone has any that I might be able to use, or could perhaps point me in the right direction, I would be extremely grateful. Many thanks in advance Hayley Dr Hayley Ness Psychology Lecturer Dept of Psychology Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA h.ness(a)open.ac.uk<mailto:h.ness@open.ac.uk> 01908 653 557 -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).

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New book on face perception
by Andy Young 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hello everyone, Happy new year! Hard times lead me to kick off the new year with a bit of shameful self-promotion of a new book that may be of interest to some of you: Bruce, V. and Young, A. Face perception. Hove: Psychology Press, 2012, 496 pages, ISBN 978-1-84169-878-6. Further details and a sample chapter are available via the publisher's web site: http://www.cognitivepsychologyarena.com/face-perception-9781841698786 It can be ordered via the publisher or on Amazon. We originally intended this as an update of our previous book (Bruce and Young, 1998, In the eye of the beholder, OUP), but the literature has moved on so much that in the end we were only able to retain a chunk of chapter 1 and some other bits and pieces - the rest is mostly new. We have tried to take a broad perspective on face perception and range fairly widely in terms of sources of evidence. However, there is now such a wealth of studies that many had to be left out. I can only apologise to those whose work may not have received the amount of coverage it deserved. A number of difficult choices had to be made. Cheers, Andy Young.

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Opinion poll regarding current research practices
by Jessica Komes 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

Hi all, On behalf of Susann Fiedler (apologies for cross-posting): Dear fellow psychologists, To maintain high scientific standards in our field, it is extremely important that we regularly take a step back and assess the research, data analysis, reporting, and publication practices that represent the current standards in psychology. You may be aware of the debate going on in the psychological community regarding a recent article that addressed the question of whether current practices should be revised (Simmons et al., 2011, Psychological Science). The article has led to diverse reactions among psychologists; and there is much speculation concerning the popular opinion of "psychologists as a whole" towards the recommendations put forth by the article. In cooperation with the Open Science Framework (http://openscienceframework.org/) we are conducting a worldwide survey of psychologists to determine the extent to which the recommendations in the above mentioned article are supported by the psychological community. Everyone's opinion is important; and it is not necessary that you have read the article in order to participate. Share your opinion about psychological research practices and the quality of publications in psychological journals by participating in this short survey! The survey takes approximately 10 minutes and is completely anonymous. Participants may also enter into a raffle to win one of three 50$ Amazon gift certificates. Link to survey: http://ww3.unipark.de/uc/extern/9afd/ Please forward this e-mail to your colleagues. Sincerely, Susann Fiedler Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 10 53113 Bonn Germany -- Jessica Komes, M.Sc. Department of General Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience and DFG Research Unit Person Perception Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Am Steiger 3, Haus 1 07743 Jena Germany Phone: +49 (0)3641 945934 E-Mail: jessica.komes(a)uni-jena.de http://www2.uni-jena.de/svw/Allgpsy1/jessica.htm

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