The enrollment of face templates and eye windows in a detection system of eye blinking or an estimation system of face orientation requires the extraction of face region and eye region in a face image. In order to automatically enroll face templates and eye windows with various face orientations, we present a novel method of extracting face region and eye window by using a set of gray-scale ima...

This paper proposes an algorithm of a face and facial component detection for face recognition. For efficient extraction using image processing, we analyze and improve detecting facial components that are the basis of an image characteristic. The proposed algorithm includes face region detection without the effect of skin color hairs, eye region detection with weighted template matching, eyebro...

An automatic facial feature extraction algorithm is presented. The algorithm is composed of two main stages: the face region estimation stage and the feature extraction stage. In the face region estimation stage, a second-chance region growing method is adopted to estimate the face region of a target image. In the feature extraction stage, genetic search algorithms are applied to extract the fa...

An emerging body of research has supported the existence of a small face sensitive region in the ventral anterior temporal lobe (ATL), referred to here as the "anterior temporal face area". The contribution of this region in the greater face-processing network remains poorly understood. The goal of the present study was to test the relative sensitivity of this region to perceptual as well as co...

The middle face patch is a region of cortex in the ventral visual pathway of the Inferior Temporal lobe in the macaque brain. This region has been identified by functional MRI to respond preferentially to images of faces over non-face images, similar to functionally defined face selective regions in the human brain. In this thesis we spatially map the category selective preference of 100's of m...