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object matching task
by Anna Bobak 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

Dear all, My name is Anna Bobak and I am a final year PhD student at Bournemouth University. I'm looking for an object matching control task with a minimum of 90 object pairs, half same and half different to run alongside face matching. I wonder if anyone could recommend a task or a database of objects big enough to make one from? Many thanks in advance for your help Best wishes, Anna Bobak Anna Bobak PhD Candidate in Psychology Bournemouth University Psychology Group Faculty of Science and Technology Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow Poole, BH12 5BB Email: abobak(a)bournemouth.ac.uk<mailto:abobak@bournemouth.ac.uk> Tel: 01202 965049

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postdoc position in face perception at Newcastle/Louvain A1954R (ION)
by Quoc Vuong 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

Dear lists: A postdoctoral position (A1954R (ION)) is available to work with Dr Quoc Vuong (Newcastle University, UK) and Dr Bruno Rossion (University of Louvain, Belgium) on an ESRC funded project entitled: A neuropsychological approach to dissect face perception and perceptual expertise. The proposed research combines neuropsychological cases, behavioural training, and neuroimaging to understand the mechanisms of face perception and perceptual expertise. The post will be for one year in my lab in Newcastle. There will be a second year in Dr Rossion's lab in Belgium (funded by him, to be negotiated). There will be additional funded trips between both labs for data collection and project meetings. We also encourage highly motivated applicants who do not currently have a PhD and wish to gain research experience to apply as there is the possibility to hire at the research assistant level. Deadline for application: September 7, 2014 Start date: As soon as possible For further details and the online application, please visit the (really long) link: https://www15.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_newcastle02.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=5… (or search for the post A1954R (ION) at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/) For informal enquiries, please feel free to contact me by email (quoc.vuong(a)newcastle.ac.uk) Bruno and I will be at ECVP2014 and would be happy to meet informally at this conference. Thanks, Quoc. ---------------------------------------- Institute of Neuroscience School of Psychology Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology Newcastle University Framlington Place Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH Tel: +44 (0)191 208 6183 Fax: +44 (0)191 208 5622 Web: www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/q.c.vuong/ ----------------------------------------

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Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Face Perception: Postdoctoral Fellowship Position at Nanyang Technological University
by Xu Hong (Asst Prof) 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Dear All, Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship position in the Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/xuhong/index_Lab.htm) at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The position is for one year initially, with the possibility of renewal for another year. Our lab aims to understand how we perceive visual stimuli and respond to the stimuli. We use human psychophysical experiments, eye tracking, EEG and ERPs recording, and fMRI through collaborations to understand the behavioral and neural mechanisms of face perception. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in psychology, perceptual or cognitive psychology, or neuroscience in general. Experience with Matlab, E-prime, or any statistical analysis tool is preferred. To apply, please send your CV, a research statement, and the contact information of 3 references to VD-HSS-RES(a)ntu.edu.sg<mailto:AD-HASS-RESEARCH@ntu.edu.sg>. Please find more details of this position at this website: http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/Research/Clusters/Pages/PostdoctoralFellowships20… Please do not hesitate to email me (xuhong(a)ntu.edu.sg<mailto:xuhong@ntu.edu.sg>) if you have any questions about the position. The deadline for application is July 31, 2014. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. Best, Hong Hong XU Assistant Professor Division of Psychology Nanyang Technological University 14 Nanyang Drive, HSS-04-06 Singapore 637332 http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/xuhong/ ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you.

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Lecturer jobs at Stirling
by Peter Hancock 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

We are advertising two posts at Stirling. Ideally developmental: how about the development of face processing? Here's the snappy URL http://www.stir.ac.uk/about/jobs/details/index.html?id=QUUFK026203F3VBQB7V7… Peter Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://tiny.cc/pjbh -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Lecturer & Senior Lecturer Posts at York St John University
by Natalie Butcher 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Dear all, My department are currently advertising a Senior Lecturer (details here) and two Lecturer (details here) positions. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from those with an interest in face processing / recognition. We have a final year option module on face processing and a number of dissertation students who are keen to investigate various aspects of face processing. It is genuinely a great place to work and I have felt valued there from the day I started. The University have recently invested in Psychology with a brand new lab space, eye trackers and VR kit (as well as other bits and pieces) to support teaching and research. If you want any further information, from a fellow face researcher, feel free to email me: n.butcher(a)yorksj.ac.uk informally OR contact Nathalie Noret (Head of Programme) who is the official point of contact for these positions. Best wishes Natalie

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FACS coding for Ekman & Friesens' Pictures of Facial Affect
by Amy Dawel 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Hi, Is anyone aware of/has documented detailed FACS coding for the PoFA? We are particularly interested in what additional (i.e., non-core) action units these stimuli include, as well as the intensity of the core AUs. Thanks, Amy ___________________________________________________________ Amy Dawel BA (Hons) Psychologist Postdoctoral Fellow Research School of Psychology (building 39) The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 https://anu-au.academia.edu/AmyDawel

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FW: football faces of pain
by Peter Hancock 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

From: jesse.hoey(a)gmail.com [mailto:jesse.hoey@gmail.com] On Behalf Of jesse hoey Sent: 16 June 2014 01:57 To: face-research-list Mailing List Subject: football faces of pain Dear Colleagues, We are working on a project to automatically classify pain/non-pain faces in football players faces. The idea is to build automatic classifiers to help the referees during world cup games distinguish "real" facial expressions of pain from "faked" expressions of pain, thereby helping to book players more fairly. Our methodology was to gather expressions from world cup videos, and then assign to positive (real pain) or negative (faked pain) class based on whether the player in question stayed off the field/on the ground for more than 30 seconds. Although we have found large numbers of negative class examples (see below for examples), we are having some difficulty identifying any positive class facial expressions. We therefore seek input from the facial expression research community into how we can adjust our methodology while gathering this important dataset of facial expressions. Thank you for your help with this matter, Jesse -- -------- Jesse Hoey Associate Professor David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 CANADA tel: +15198884567x37744 email: jhoey(a)cs.uwaterloo.ca<mailto:jhoey@cs.uwaterloo.ca> -- The University of Stirling has been ranked in the top 12 of UK universities for graduate employment*. 94% of our 2012 graduates were in work and/or further study within six months of graduation. *The Telegraph The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159.

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Paper on Parent-Offspring Resemblance Problem - Computer Vision
by Afshin Dehghan 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hi Everyone, I'm sending this email to let you know that our recent work "Who do I look Like? Determining Parent-offpsring resemblance via Gated-autoencoder" is accepted for publication in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in Columbus, Oh. In this paper, we look into the parent-offspring problem from computer perspective, propose new deep learning approach and try to answer 4 key questions that have been of interest in other fields, e.g anthropologies. 1. Do children resemble their parents? 2. Do children resemble on parent more than the other? 3. What facial features are more genetic? 4. Do anthropological studies help computers making a better decision? Here is the link to that paper and 1 min spotlight video: Paper : http://crcv.ucf.edu/people/phd_students/afshin/Afshin_Dehghan_Resemblance_C… Spotlight; http://crcv.ucf.edu/people/phd_students/afshin/kinship_spotlight.mp4 Afshin -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Afshin Dehghan Ph.D. Student, CS Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV), UCF http://crcv.ucf.edu/ <http://vision.eecs.ucf.edu/people/afshin/>

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Looking for a data base with bodies in different views
by Caspar M. Schwiedrzik 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Hi! I was wondering whether anyone knew an image data base that contains human and/or monkey body images take from different view points? Thanks! Caspar

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Re: [Face-research-list] Face-research-list Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4
by Alex McIntyre 27 May '14

27 May '14

Hi Anita, we used Psychomorph to do this by generating average neutral faces and average expression faces. For example, 100 neutral faces generated the neutral template, 100 smiling faces generated the smiling template. We were then able to modify the shape of individual faces by set incremental amounts by warping the shape information of the individual faces between our neutral and smiling parameters. Be careful, however, because you will come up against the problem of generating posed expressions which will not be true natural expressions - and here lies the real challenge. Good luck and feel free to contact make direct at a.h.mcintyre(a)stir.ac.uk Best wishes Alex ________________________________________ From: face-research-list-bounces(a)lists.stir.ac.uk [face-research-list-bounces(a)lists.stir.ac.uk] On Behalf Of face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk [face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk] Sent: 25 May 2014 12:00 To: face-research-list Mailing List Subject: Face-research-list Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 Send Face-research-list mailing list submissions to face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/face-research-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk You can reach the person managing the list at face-research-list-owner(a)lists.stir.ac.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Face-research-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Face-research-list Digest, Vol 40, Issue 2 (gary(a)ucsd.edu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 17:29:02 +0200 From: "gary(a)ucsd.edu" <gary(a)eng.ucsd.edu> To: face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk, ralph adolphs <radolphs(a)hss.caltech.edu> Subject: Re: [Face-research-list] Face-research-list Digest, Vol 40, Issue 2 Message-ID: <CAHT8hywNPTb_KDOYJLOYA2tHNyYcifiLcF5EtoXQwyrLbkn1kg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Anita - we did just that with the Ekman faces probably over 10 years ago. Ralph Adolphs did the morphing; he may still have the images. I am cc'ing him here. g. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:00 PM, < face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk> wrote: > Send Face-research-list mailing list submissions to > face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/face-research-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > face-research-list-request(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > face-research-list-owner(a)lists.stir.ac.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Face-research-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Info morphing software (Montagna, Anita) > 2. Re: Info morphing software (Claudia Schulz) > 3. Re: Info morphing software (Peter Hancock) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 08:14:10 +0000 > From: "Montagna, Anita" <anita.montagna(a)kcl.ac.uk> > To: "face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk" > <face-research-list(a)lists.stir.ac.uk> > Subject: [Face-research-list] Info morphing software > Message-ID: <1400833219611.70465(a)kcl.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear all of you, > > My name is Anita Montagna, PhD student at the Centre for the Developing > Brain. > > I am looking for a software to morph pictures of faces in order to build a > task of face expressions recognition. > > I had a look at Psychomorph but it seems that no instructions exist online. > > Could you help me? > I need to create different levels of intensities of emotions and I have > neutral and 100% intensities emotional faces > > Many thanks for your help, > > Best regards, > > Anita Montagna > > >

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