News tagged with face images
Trusting Tiger Woods: How do facial cues affect preference and trust?
People respond to facial cues and this affects their level of trust, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research that looks at the way consumers react to morphed photo images.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 16, 2012 |
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Mask-bot: A robot with a human face
Robotics researchers in Munich, Germany, have joined forces with Japanese scientists to develop an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Image processing: The human (still) beats the machine
(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel experiment conducted by researchers at Idiap Research Institute and Johns Hopkins University highlights some of the limitations of automatic image analysis systems. Their results were ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 31, 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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Labor or conservative? It's all in the eye of the beholder
Scientists have uncovered specific facial characteristics which make MPs look like they belong to one of the two major political parties in Britain.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 06, 2011 |
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New technology to predict future appearance
A Concordia graduate student has designed a promising computer program that could serve as a new tool in missing-child investigations and matters of national security. Khoa Luu has developed a more effective computer-based ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 11, 2011 |
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How do we combine faces and voices?
Human social interactions are shaped by our ability to recognise people. Faces and voices are known to be some of the key features that enable us to identify individual people, and they are rich in information such as gender, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2011 |
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CeBIT: Perfect make-up every time, thanks to your computer
Every woman's dream is to have her own personal make-up artist. That dream could soon be a reality with a computer that scans your face and suggests the perfect personalised make-up combination.
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Rock stars, Hollywood take a look at Iowa State researcher's unique 3-D technology
William Lohry took a seat before a projector-camera combination and offered his best smile.
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Researchers validate, extend fMRI research on brain activity
Like a motorist who knows that the "check engine" light indicates something important but ill-defined is happening, neuroscientists have relied heavily on an incompletely understood technology called functional magnetic resonance ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 16, 2010 |
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Key to subliminal messaging is to keep it negative, study shows
Subliminal messaging is most effective when the message being conveyed is negative, according to new research.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Canon D10 great for underwater photography
I've tested many underwater point-and-shoot digital cameras and none are as simple to use as the Canon D10. The digital file it produced underwater was simply better than any other point-and-shoot camera ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 03, 2009 |
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It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images
(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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If the face fits...
The creators of the EFIT-V forensic facial composite software describe how it works and recent successes with police services in the UK in the current issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Fo ...
May 01, 2009 |
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The brain 'joins the dots' when drawing a cartoon face from memory
In a study by Miall, Gowen and Tchalenko published by Elsevier, in the March issue of Cortex, a brain scanner was used to record the brain's activity in each stage of the process of drawing faces. The researchers found that t ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 19, 2009 |
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