News tagged with face recognition
Just another pretty face: Professor investigates neural basis of prosopagnosia
For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 01, 2012 |
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I recognize you! But how did I do it?
Are you someone who easily recognises everyone you've ever met? Or maybe you struggle, even with familiar faces? It is already known that we are better at recognising faces from our own race but researchers have only recently ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Why do some people never forget a face?
(Medical Xpress) -- “Face recognition is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it,” says Beijing Normal University cognitive psychologist Jia Liu. But what accounts for the difference? ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Honda shows smarter robot, helps in nuclear crisis (Update, w/ video)
Honda's human-shaped robot can now run faster, balance itself on uneven surfaces, hop on one foot and pour a drink. Some of its technology may even be used to help out with clean-up operations at the stricken ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Notre Dame computer vision experts develop 'questionable observer detector'
It's become a standard plot device of television detective shows: criminals always return to the scene of the crime. And law enforcement officials believe that perpetrators of certain crimes, mostly notably arson, do indeed ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Insight into sheep memory bolsters husbandry standards
UWA Institute of Agriculture has discovered that sheep, despite having a cultural reputation for being unintelligent, have excellent memories.
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Have we met before? Direct connections between brain areas responsible for voice, face recognition
(Medical Xpress) -- Face and voice are the two main features by which we recognise other people. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences have now discovered that ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 08, 2011 |
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How coming home changes a soldier's brain
Soldiers returning from combat have heightened activity in the part of the brain that regulates fear but this usually normalises after around 18 months, a study has found.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Similar structures for face selectivity in human and monkey brains
(Medical Xpress) -- Face recognition and the interpretation of facial expressions and gaze direction play a key role in guiding the social behavior of human beings, and new study results point to similar mechanisms in macaques. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 28, 2011 |
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SW China mega-city building huge security system
The mega-city of Chongqing in southwest China plans to build a $2.6 billion security system that will be one of the world's largest with 500,000 surveillance cameras, state media have said.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 08, 2011 |
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Method developed to match police sketch, mug shot
(PhysOrg.com) -- The long-time practice of using police facial sketches to nab criminals has been, at best, an inexact art. But the process may soon be a little more exact thanks to the work of some Michigan ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 03, 2011 |
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New software brings facial-recognition technology to mobile phones (w/ Video)
Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed software for mobile phones that can track your facial features in real-time. Eventually it will be able to tell who the user is, where they are looking and even how ...
Oct 26, 2010 |
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Biometric ID technologies 'inherently fallible', new report says
Biometric systems -- designed to automatically recognize individuals based on biological and behavioral traits such as fingerprints, palm prints, or voice or face recognition -- are "inherently fallible," says a new report ...
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Facial recognition techniques studied by BBS team
Rapid improvements in facial-recognition software mean airport security workers might one day know with near certainty whether they're looking at a stressed-out tourist or staring a terrorist in the eye. ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Can't place that face? The trouble may be in your neurons
A specific area in our brains is responsible for processing information about human and animal faces, both how we recognize them and how we interpret facial expressions. Now, Tel Aviv University research is exploring what ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Facial recognition system
A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. One of the ways to do this is by comparing selected facial features from the image and a facial database.
It is typically used in security systems and can be compared to other biometrics such as fingerprint or eye iris recognition systems.
For more information about Facial recognition system, read the full article at
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