News tagged with face recognition

Hormone important in recognizing familiar faces

Oxytocin, a hormone involved in child-birth and breast-feeding, helps people recognize familiar faces, according to new research in the January 7 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Study participants who had one dose o ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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 ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 9

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

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Tokyo trials digital billboards that scan passers-by

Digital advertising billboards being trialled in Japan are fitted with cameras that read the gender and age group of people looking at them to tailor their commercial messages.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Gay men's bilateral brains better at remembering faces: study

Gay men can recall familiar faces faster and more accurately than their heterosexual counterparts because, like women, they use both sides of their brains, according to a new study by York University researchers.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

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.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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

created May 16, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Genes responsible for ability to recognize faces

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to recognise faces is largely determined by your genes, according to new research at UCL (University College London).

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Face recognition ability inherited separately from IQ

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recognizing faces is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it. Some people are unable to recognize even their closest friends (a condition called prosopagnosia), ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Recognition at last: Face recognition computers can see through your disguise

A rapid but superior method for computerized face recognition could revolutionize security systems especially if it can see through disguises, according to research published in this month's issue of the International Jo ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

'Super-recognizers,' with extraordinary face recognition ability, never forget a face

Some people say they never forget a face, a claim now bolstered by psychologists at Harvard University who've discovered a group they call "super-recognizers": those who can easily recognize someone they met ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10

Review: Galaxy Nexus buttons up; Droid Razr Maxx is sharp

Verizon has been rolling out its 4G coverage to 195 markets, and the company has given me two phones to review that take good advantage of 4G's much faster speeds.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 Wikipedia.
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