An introduction to object recognition. A bootstrapping algorithm for learning linear models of object classes. View canonicality affects naming but not name verification of common objects. The viewpoint complexity of an object-recognition task. Viewpoint effects in naming silhouette and shaded images of familiar objects.
Faces form an object class of large biological significance.
Faces of different persons can be very similar, however, the human visual system seems to be very sensitive to the small differences between them. It is able to recognize individual persons even from new views and under new illuminations. We are investigating this ability with psychophysical experiments based on an example-based vision. Face recognition across viewpoint. The role of shape and texture information in sex classification.