These pages describe research in face recognition carried out in Mike Burton's group.

People

Group Members
Mike Burton, Markus Bindemann, David White, Lyndsay Baird, Loiusa Cliff, Romy Dunbar, Graham MacKenzie

Collaborators on currently funded projects
Rob Jenkins, Stefan Schweinberger, Steve Langton, Allan McNeill, Richard Kemp

Other long-term collaborators
Andy Calder, Andy Young, Andy Ellis, Peter Hancock, Ahmed Megreya

Funded projects

BBSRC: Cognitive modelling of face recognition using event-related brain potentials. 2002-2005. With Stefan Schweinberger.
ESRC: Robust Representations for face recognition. 2004-2006. With Rob Jenkins. (Final report here)
Wellcome Trust: The influence of faces on human attention: gaze cueing and face capture. 2004-2007. With Stefan Schweinberger & Steve Langton.
ESRC: Indiviual variation in face processing. 2006-2008. With Allan McNeill.
ESRC: Human face detection in natural scenes. 2007-2009. With Markus Bindemann.
ESRC: Familiar face aftereffects. 2007-2009. With Rob Jenkins
ESRC/ARC: Solving the passport problem: Re-designing photo ID to improve recognition. 2008-2010. With Rob Jenkins (Glasgow) and Richard Kemp, University of New South Wales.

For researchers in face recognition: Download the GFMT here, and a paper describing the test here.

Some pages describing our current research

• Average faces How to recognise faces over a huge range of images
• The IAC model A model of cognitive aspects of face recognition, including a web based IAC model which will run in your browser)
• CCTV Identification of faces from video (human and automatic)

Pages describing some older projects

• Sex (What makes male and female faces look different?)
• Distinctiveness (What makes faces look similar or different?)
• 3d heads (What role does 3d surface play in face processing?)
• PCA (Principal Components Analysis of facial images)
• Priming studies (Experiments on cognitive aspects of face recognition)
• Perception of identity, expression and speech (How independent are they?)

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