News tagged with facial 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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Computer surveillance will help keep an eye on national security
Protecting community through intelligent surveillance technology is vital but current facial recognition systems make it difficult to identify people in unconstrained environments.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 26, 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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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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Computers will be able to tell social traits from the face
Researchers have developed new computational tools that help computers determine whether faces fall into categories like attractive or threatening, according to a recent paper published in the journal PLoS ONE. Mario Rojas ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Study pinpoints part of brain that suppresses instinct
Research from York University is revealing which regions in the brain "fire up" when we suppress an automatic behaviour such as the urge to look at other people as we enter an elevator.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Robots provide insight into human perception
Research using a robot designed to express human emotions has revealed unexpected insights into how our perception is affected by anthropomorphism, or giving human characteristics to non-human animals or things.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Google image search gets a 'swirl'
Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages.
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Improving security with face recognition technology
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. ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Skin-disease patients show brain immunity to faces of disgust
(PhysOrg.com) -- People with psoriasis - an often distressing dermatological condition that causes lesions and red scaly patches on the skin - are less likely to react to looks of disgust by others than people without the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Researchers Find Alcoholics Display Abnormal Brain Activity When Processing Facial Expressions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Darwin complicit in manipulating photos
When Darwin came to publish The Expression of the Emotions in 1872, he employed images made by five photographers to illustrate the wide variation in human facial expressions. A new study of the way that two of these phot ...
Jul 02, 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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New Insight Into How Bees See
New research from Monash University bee researcher Adrian Dyer could lead to improved artificial intelligence systems and computer programs for facial recognition.
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Jan 23, 2009 |
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