Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Face Recognition: Explorations in Face Space [Paperback]

List of Illustrations.  List of Contributors.  Preface.  1. The Development of Face Recognition Robert A. Johnston and Hadyn D. Ellis  2. Expertise and the Caricature Advantage Sarah V. Stevenage  3. Face Recognition and Configural Coding Gillian Rhodes  4. An Account of the Own-Race Bias and the Contact Hypothesis based on a Face Space Model of Face Recognition Tim Valentine, Patrick Chiroro and Ruth Dixon  5. Distinctiveness and Memory for Unfamiliar Faces Judith A. Hosie and Alan B. Milne  6. Memorability, Familiarity and Categorical Structure in the Recognition of Faces John R. Vokey and J. Don Read  7. Missing Dimensions of Distinctiveness Vicki Bruce, A. Mike Burton and Peter J. Hancock  8. A Perceptual Learning Theory of the Information in Faces Alice J. OToole, Herv? Abdi, Kenneth A. Deffenbacher and Dominique Valentin  9. A Manifold Model of Face and Object Recognition Ian Craw  10.Perspectives on Face Perception. Directing Research by Exploiting Emergent Prototypes Philip J. Benson.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

How can computers recognize faces? Why are caricatures of famous faces so easily recognized?

Originally published in 1995, much of the previous research on face recognition had been phenomena driven. Recent empirical work together with the application of computational, mathematical and statistical techniques have provided new ways of conceptualizing the information available in faces. These advances have led researchers to suggest that many phenomena can be explained by the structure of the information available in the population(s) of faces. This broad approach has drawn together a number oflS'