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2003

Life Sciences

University of Wollongong

Faces

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Linking The Structure And Perception Of 3-D Faces: Gender, Ethnicity And Expressive Posture, Guillaume Vignali, Harold C. Hill, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson Jan 2003

Linking The Structure And Perception Of 3-D Faces: Gender, Ethnicity And Expressive Posture, Guillaume Vignali, Harold C. Hill, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

A statistical study of human face shape is reported whose overall goal was to identify and characterise salient components of facial structure for human perception and communicative behaviour. A large database of 3-D faces has been constructed and analysed for differences in ethnicity, sex, and posture. For each of more than 300 faces varying in race/ethnicity (Japanese versus Caucasian) and sex, nine postures (smiling, producing vowels, etc) were recorded. Principal components analysis (PCA) and linear discriminant analysis (LDA) were used to reduce the dimensionality of the data and to provide simple, yet reliable reconstruction of any face from components corresponding …


Visual Search For Faces (Revisited): Orientation, Identity & Faceness., Darren Burke, Simone K. Favelle, William Hayward Jan 2003

Visual Search For Faces (Revisited): Orientation, Identity & Faceness., Darren Burke, Simone K. Favelle, William Hayward

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

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