Judging sex and identity from isolated facial movement

Categorizing identity from facial motion.

Advances in marker-less motion capture technology now allow the accurate replication of facial motion and deformation in computer-generated imagery (CGI). A forced-choice discrimination paradigm using such CGI facial animations showed that human observers can categorize identity solely from facial motion cues. Animations were generated from motion captures acquired during natural speech, thus e...

Identity information content depends on the type of facial movement

Facial movements convey information about many social cues, including identity. However, how much information about a person's identity is conveyed by different kinds of facial movements is unknown. We addressed this question using a recent motion capture and animation system, with which we animated one avatar head with facial movements of three types: (1) emotional, (2) emotional in social int...

Running head : Identity from Facial Motion 1 Categorising Identity from Facial Motion

Three dimensional analysis of facial movement in normal adults: influence of sex and facial shape.

The aim of this study was to quantify facial movements in a sample of normal adults and to investigate the influence of sex and facial shape on these movements. The study sample consisted of 50 healthy adult subjects, 25 males and 25 females (age: mean = 27.3 years; range = 23-39 years). A video-based tracking system was used to track small-diameter retroreflective markers positioned at specifi...

Facial expressions and memory for facial identity 1 Running head: FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND MEMORY FOR FACIAL IDENTITY

Previous studies indicate that the encoding of new facial identities in memory is influenced by the type of expression displayed by the faces. In the current study, we investigated whether or not this influence requires attention to be explicitly directed towards the affective meaning of facial expressions. In a first experiment, we found that facial identity was better recognized when the face...