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What represents a face? A computational approach for the integration of physiological and psychological data.
Betty EdelmanDominique ValentinHervé Abdisubject
050109 social psychologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyFacial recognition system050105 experimental psychologyAutoassociative memoryConnectionismArtificial IntelligenceMemoryImage Processing Computer-AssistedHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesComputer SimulationRecognition memoryCommunicationArtificial neural networkbusiness.industryMemoria05 social sciencesCognitionSensory SystemsForm PerceptionOphthalmologyIdentification (information)FacePsychologybusinessCognitive psychologydescription
Empirical studies of face recognition suggest that faces might be stored in memory by means of a few canonical representations. The nature of these canonical representations is, however, unclear. Although psychological data show a three-quarter-view advantage, physiological studies suggest profile and frontal views are stored in memory. A computational approach to reconcile these findings is proposed. The pattern of results obtained when different views, or combinations of views, are used as the internal representation of a two-stage identification network consisting of an autoassociative memory followed by a radial-basis-function network are compared. Results show that (i) a frontal and a profile view are sufficient to reach the optimal network performance; and (ii) all the different representations produce a three-quarter view advantage, similar to that generally described for human subjects. These results indicate that although three-quarter views yield better recognition than other views, they need not be stored in memory to show this advantage.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-10-01 | Perception |