Previous work has reported the existence of "super-recognisers" (SRs), or individuals with extraordinary face recognition skills. However, the precise underpinnings of this ability have not yet been investigated. In this paper we examine (a) the face-specificity of super recognition, (b) perception of facial identity in SRs, (c) whether SRs present with enhancements in holistic processing and (...

We assessed individual differences in visual attention toward faces in relation to their attractiveness via saccadic reaction times. Motivated by the aim to understand individual differences in attention to faces, we tested three hypotheses: (a) Attractive faces hold or capture attention more effectively than less attractive faces; (b) men show a stronger bias toward attractive opposite-sex fac...

The recognition of faces is one of the easiest and the most frequently used by adult human method of distinction between known and unknown persons and identification of these familiar. Usually we benefit from it even without the awareness of this process and similarly another people can recognize our identity basing only on the quick observation. Often such recognition is done even without our ...

The proposed system consists of two main parts. The first part is to search the potential face regions that are gotten from the triangles based on the rules of “the combination of two eves and one mouth”. The second part of the proposed system is to perform the face verijication task. The proposed face detection system can locate multiple faces embedded in complicated backgrounds. Moreover, it ...

Various models have been proposed to increase understanding of the cognitive basis of facial emotions. Despite those efforts, interactions between facial emotions have received minimal attention. If collective behaviours relating to each facial emotion in the comprehensive cognitive system could be assumed, specific facial emotion relationship patterns might emerge. In this study, we demonstrat...

Previous research suggests differences in lip movement between deliberate and spontaneous facial expressions. We investigated within participant differences between deliberately posed and spontaneously occurring smiles during a directed facial action task. Using automated facial image analysis, we quantified lip corner movement during periods of visible Zygomaticus major activity. Onset and off...

In an image, the faces of the persons are the first information looked for. Performing face detection in a video, allows to obtain automatically "face" summaries by privileging in the summary the images where faces have been detected. Shots with a similar scene layout (same number of person, similar face position and size) are gathered within shot clusters.

The effects of makeup on attractiveness have been evaluated using mainly subjective measures. In this study, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from a total of 45 Japanese women (n = 23 and n = 22 for Experiment 1 and 2, respectively) to examine the neural processing of faces with no makeup, light makeup, and heavy makeup. To have the participants look at each face carefully, a...