Perceiving "face space"

The face, beauty, and symmetry: perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces.

The relationship between bilateral facial symmetry and beauty remains to be clarified. Here, straight head-on photographs of "beautiful" faces from the collections of professional modeling agencies were selected. First, beauty ratings were obtained for these faces. Then, the authors created symmetrical left-left and right-right composites of the beautiful faces and asked a new group of subjects...

Face-space Models of Face Recognition

Geometry of face space

The geometrical character of face space is investigated, and is analyzed within the framework of eigenface decompositions. To deal with the sparse data problem, which occurs when not enough data is present to fill the space, we construct and test a range of probabilistic models. A key tool in this investigation is the decomposition of the eigenfaces representation of face space into odd and eve...

6 Representing , perceiving and remembering the shape of visual space

Humans constantly engage in automatic and rapid analysis of spatial scene structure when navigating an environment or searching for objects. This chapter draws on current research from computational, behavioral and neuroscience perspectives aimed at understanding how the human brain perceives, represents, and remembers the shape of space. Space can be described with both structural descriptions...

Perceiving the topological structure of space through sensorimotor interaction

This paper deals with the perception of mobile robotic systems within the framework of interactive perception, and inspired by the sensorimotor contingencies theory. These approaches state that perception is an ability built from the motor and sensory data that an agent/robot experiences through its environment exploration. In a recent article, the authors have shown that the perception of spac...