Dear Colleagues,
I am wondering if there is anywhere on the internet a freely accessible tool with which one could create a "face-space" a-la Leopold et al, (2001), e.g. as a Matlab toolbox or any other way.
What i would need is something into which i can put a given number of faces and it creates the space with its anti-face versions etc.
Thanks in advance for any information.
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Hi all,
I just received my copy of the recently published 'Oxford Handbook of Face
Perception', edited by Andy Calder, Gill Rhodes, Mark Johnson and Jim
Haxby (OUP, 2011).
See http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199559053.do
Here's what the publishers say about it:
'The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception is the most comprehensive and
commanding review of the field ever published. It looks at the functional
and neural mechanisms underlying the perception, representation, and
interpretation of facial characteristics, such as identity, expression,
eye gaze, attractiveness, personality, and race. It examines the
development of these processes, their neural correlates in both human and
non-human primates, congenital and acquired disorders resulting from their
breakdown, and the theoretical and computational frameworks for their
underlying mechanisms. With chapters by an international team of leading
authorities from the brain sciences, the book is a landmark publication on
face perception.'
Unusually, most of the hyperbole is valid. This is a book that many of us
will be wanting to dip into for the background to aspects of face
perception we don't know so well, or just to get someone else's take on
our own pet topic. It's not cheap, of course, but you can try to get your
library to buy it. Definitely worth checking out, anyway.
Cheers,
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Hello,
I'm a psychology research Masters student and I'm looking at
in-group/out-group ratings of faces, which I intend to manipulate through
priming. The group is determined by ethnicity and I will be asking
ethnically Chinese individuals to participate. I have a set of neutral
Chinese faces and I am now looking for a second set of neutral Asian faces
that I can use for comparison.
The second set of faces must be clearly distinct from the Chinese faces, so
my current preference would be for a set of Indian stimuli, however I am
open to using any Asian stimuli set other than faces that are ethnically
Japanese since the face structure is too similar to Chinese.
I would really appreciate some help getting this second set of stimuli. If
anyone one has a stimuli set or knows of one referenced in an article can
you please let me know? Full credit will of course be given to the creator
of the stimuli set.
Thanks and Regards,
Christy
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Hi,
Im a PhD student in computer science working on 3D face landmarking and
recognition.
I am looking for scientific articles on prosopagnosia and on the
difference between face recognition and object recognition in the brain.
This is probably the right mailing-list to ask.
What I am looking for is review articles about research on prosopagnosia
so that I can redirect my readers (if they are interested) to the whole
corpus of literature by citing one or two articles.
As it is not my field it is difficult for me to distinguish between the
good and less good papers on that subject.
I'm sure your expertise can help.
Please contact me if you have some articles to suggest.
Best regards,
Clement Creusot.
Dear all,
As promised the FaceNet website is now finally ready - you can follow the link below to create your own research profile and browse those of others:
www.face-net.org
We've checked it pretty throughly and all seems to be in working order, but any teething problems that occur please let me know and we'll sort it out ASAP. If anyone has any suggestions for keywords that describe their area of research which are not covered already, please also let me know and I can add these.
Best wishes,
Sarah
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Hi everyone,
This post-doc is not ONLY on face-recognition but may include face
recognition. Please free free to pass on to any other likely people!
Thanks,
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Dear all,
A colleague has found a new face illusion and I thought it might be of interest to list members. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6lGNhPujE
Best wishes
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Dear all, I've been doing a bit of work on the PICS database, http://pics.stir.ac.uk. I've added some more face sets and hope to have some 3d images available by the end of the summer. I'll also add to the 'other databases' list, especially if you tell me about yours!
Now, I'm sure many of you have collections of faces that would be of great benefit to the community but are hidden away. So, if you have images that you could make available but haven't got round to, now is the time to zip them up and I'll put them on the server here, with due acknowledgement. I haven't yet sorted downloading with permission only, but hope to do so. Therefore, if you have images that you are prepared to make available only to vetted researchers, let me know and we'll see what can be done.
Peter
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