Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Face Recognition: Explorations in Face Space

How can computers recognize faces? Why are caricatures of famous faces so easily recognized?

Originally published in 1995, much of the previous research on face recognition had been phenomena driven. Recent empirical work together with the application of computational, mathematical and statistical techniques have provided new ways of conceptualizing the information available in faces. These advances have led researchers to suggest that many phenomena can be explained by the structure of the ...