CS 332 Assignment 5 Due: Tuesday, November 1

During class on Wednesday, November 2, we will have a class discussion about how people recognize faces. The main background for this discussion is the article by Sinha, Balas, Ostrovsky, and Russell entitled, Face Recognition by Humans: Nineteen Results All Computer Vision Researchers Should Know About, which was distributed in an earlier class. You should read this paper in its entirety and be prepared to discuss the basic observations from perceptual studies that are described in the paper, and their implications for the way in which faces may be represented and analyzed in the process of recognition. There are a few topics that we will highlight in our discussion, which are addressed in more detail in the papers below: (1) the role of holistic processing of faces, (2) the role of average faces in familiar face recognition, and (3) the role of facial movement in recognition. For this assignment, select one of the following three articles and write a 1-2 page summary and analysis (at least 750 words) of the contributions of the paper to our understanding of how people recognize faces (in the case of a review, you can select particular subtopics to highlight in your summary).

Holistic Processing of Faces:
Tanaka, J. W. & Simonyi, D. 2016. The "parts and wholes" of face recognition: A review of the literature, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 69(10), 1876-1889.

Average Faces in Familiar Face Recognition:
Burton, A. M., Jenkins, R., Hancock, P. J. & White, D. 2005. Robust representations for face recognition: The power of averages, Cognitive Psychology 51, 256-284.

Role of Facial Movement in Recognition:
Knappmeyer, B., Thornton, I. M. & Bulthoff, H. H. 2003. The use of facial motion and facial form during the processing of identity, Vision Research 43, 1921-1936.

Submission details: Hand in a hardcopy of your summary for this assignment.