News tagged with facial
Improving security with face recognition technology
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 10, 2009 |
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A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. ...
Internet search process affects cognition, emotion
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search ...
First impressions count when making personality judgments, new research shows
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 03, 2009 |
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First impressions do matter when it comes to communicating personality through appearance, according to new research by psychologists Laura Naumann of Sonoma State University and Sam Gosling of The University of Texas at ...
Robots primed for 'are you being served' role in Arabic
Nov 03, 2009 |
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A laboratory in the UAE has built what it says is the world's first Arabic-speaking robot which could soon go into mass production to serve as staff in shopping malls.
Sights and sounds of emotion trigger big brain responses
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of York have identified a part of the brain that responds to both facial and vocal expressions of emotion.
AIDA Robot Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project ...
Angry faces: Research suggests link between facial structure and aggression
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Angry words and gestures are not the only way to get a sense of how temperamental a person is. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, a quick glance at som ...
For gay and straight men, gauging facial attraction appears to operate similarly
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women.
Did India invent the nose job?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 29, 2009 |
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An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.
Intelligent system to help autistic children recognize emotions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Computer scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are working on the development of an efficient and intelligent facial expression recognition system. The system is capable of locating the face region ...
Being a standout has its benefits, study shows
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Standing out in a crowd is better than blending in, at least if you're a paper wasp in a colony where fights between nest-mates determine social status.
FBI delves into DMV photos in search for fugitives
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of ...
Researchers identify better laser for treating facial spider veins
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have concluded that the 940nm wavelength laser is superior for treating facial spider veins (telangiectasias) as compared to the 532nm wavelength ...
Brazilians judge facial beauty differently than North Americans
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Standard ideals of facial beauty and harmony may differ depending on geographic location, with a specific difference between North American beauty ideals and those of Brazilians.
Too scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look ...
