Primates can recognize faces across a range of viewing conditions. Representations of individual identity should thus exist that are invariant to accidental image transformations like view direction. We targeted the recently discovered face-processing network of the macaque monkey that consists of six interconnected face-selective regions and recorded from the two middle patches (ML, middle lat...

In the title compound, C(7)H(14)N(6), the amine groups of the two methyl-hydrazino substituents are orientated in the opposite direction to the methyl substituent at the 2-position of the pyrimidine ring. The mol-ecule is almost planar with only the two amine N atoms lying substanti-ally out of the mean plane of the pyrimidine ring [by 0.1430 (2) and 0.3092 (2) Å]. The H atoms on these amine gr...

Fretting experiments were conducted on the (10 0) crystal (cubic) face of a single crystal Ni-base superalloy in two directions, /10 0S and /110S, to study the effect of crystallographic orientation on the fretting response in both partial slip and gross slip regimes. The study involved point contacts using a tungsten carbide (WC) ball with radius 10 mm tested at room temperature. Ball indentat...

Wavelets have been a prominent image analysis tool over the past decade. Face recognition researchers use it for varied reasons – pre-processing, compression and feature extraction. We refer the reader to [1] for a good review on the theory and applications of wavelets in face recognition. In this chapter we will concentrate on some new transforms that have emerged from the limitations in wavel...

This paper proposes a novel local feature descriptor, Local Directional Number Pattern (LDN), for face analysis: face and expression recognition. LDN encodes the directional information of the face’s textures (i.e., the texture’s structure) in a compact way, producing a more discriminative code than current methods. We compute the structure of each micro-pattern with the aid of a compass mask, ...

Using a dynamic stimuli paradigm, in which faces expressed either happiness or anger, the authors tested the hypothesis that perceptions of trustworthiness are related to these expressions. Although the same emotional intensity was added to both trustworthy and untrustworthy faces, trustworthy faces who expressed happiness were perceived as happier than untrustworthy faces, and untrustworthy fa...

In four experiments, we investigated whether 9-month-old infants are sensitive to the relationship between gaze direction and object location and whether this sensitivity depends on the presence of communicative cues like eye contact. Infants observed a face, which repeatedly shifted its eyes either toward, or away from, unpredictably appearing objects. We found that they looked longer at the f...

We study the minimum cost path problem in an environment where the cost is direction-dependent (anisotropic). This problem arise in sailing, robotics, aircraft navigation, and routing of autonomous vehicles, where the cost is affected by the direction of waves, winds or slope of the terrain. We present an approximation algorithm to find a minimum cost path for a point robot moving in a planar s...

This paper presents a real-time gaze direction estimation approach. The face region and facial features are extracted automatically by applying skin detection, gray-scale morphology and a geometrical face model. The Kalman filtering is applied for tracking and estimation of the 3-D pose of the moving head. The rough gaze direction is determined from the orientation of the head. Experiments with...