Dynamic Faces: Insights from Experiments and Computation (Hardcover)

The recognition of faces is a fundamental visual function with importance for social interaction and communication. Scientific interest in facial recognition has increased dramatically over the last decade. Researchers in such fields as psychology, neurophysiology, and functional imaging have published more than 10,000 studies on face processing. Almost all of these studies focus on the processing of static pictures of faces, however, with little attention paid to the recognition of dynamic faces, faces as they change over time—a topic in neuroscience that is also relevant for a variety of technical applications, including robotics, animation, and human-computer interfaces. This volume offers a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of recent work on dynamic faces from both biological and computational perspectives.

The chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the psychophysics of dynamic face perception, results from electrophysiology and imaging, clinical deficits in patients with impairments of dynamic face processing, and computational models that provide insights about the brain mechanisms for the processing of dynamic faces. The book offers neuroscientists and biologists an essential reference for designing new experiments, and provides computer scientists with knowledge that will help them improve technical systems for the recognition, processing, synthesizing, and animating of dynamic faces.

臉部辨識是一種基本的視覺功能，對於社交互動和溝通非常重要。過去十年間，對於臉部辨識的科學研究興趣急劇增加。心理學、神經生理學和功能影像學等領域的研究人員已經發表了超過10,000篇有關臉部處理的研究。然而，幾乎所有這些研究都集中在靜態臉部圖片的處理上，對於動態臉部的辨識，也就是隨著時間變化的臉部，卻付出了很少的關注。這個主題在神經科學中也相當重要，同時也與多種技術應用有關，包括機器人技術、動畫和人機界面。本書提供了一個最新的、跨學科的動態臉部研究概述。

本書的章節涵蓋了廣泛的主題，包括動態臉部知覺的心理物理學、電生理學和影像學的結果、患有動態臉部處理障礙的患者的臨床缺陷，以及提供有關動態臉部處理的腦機制的計算模型。本書為神經科學家和生物學家設計新實驗提供了必要的參考，同時為計算機科學家提供了知識，幫助他們改進動態臉部的辨識、處理、合成和動畫技術。