Dartmouth professor with colleagues at Birkbeck College in the University of London,are investigating the process of facial recognition, seeking to understand the complexity of what is actually taking place in the brain when one person looks at another.Humans accomplish facial recognition very differently than the computer programs they have created to help with the task. But a better understanding of how humans do it should certainly help biometric algorithm developers advance facial recognition technology.
His studies target people who display an inability to recognise faces, a condition long known as prosopagnosia. Duchaine is trying to understand the neural basis of the condition while also make inferences about what is going wrong in terms of information processing—where in the stages that our brains go through to recognise a face is the system breaking down. A paper published in Brain details the most recent experimental results.
See also:
(Facial Recognition vs Human) & (Facial Recognition + Human)
Short BBC video on Prosopagnosia
