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- Correlates of facial expressions in the primary visual cortexPublication . Sousa, R.; Rodrigues, J. M. F.; du Buf, J. M. H.Face detection and recognition should be complemented by recognition of facial expression, for example for social robots which must react to human emotions. Our framework is based on two multi-scale representations in cortical area V1: keypoints at eyes, nose and mouth are grouped for face detection [1]; lines and edges provide information for face recognition [2].
- Recognition of facial expressions by cortical multi-scale line and edge codingPublication . Sousa, R.; Rodrigues, J. M. F.; du Buf, J. M. H.Empirical studies concerning face recognition suggest that faces may be stored in memory by a few canonical representations. Models of visual perception are based on image representations in cortical area V1 and beyond, which contain many cell layers for feature extraction. Simple, complex and end-stopped cells provide input for line, edge and keypoint detection. Detected events provide a rich, multi-scale object representation, and this representation can be stored in memory in order to identify objects. In this paper, the above context is applied to face recognition. The multi-scale line/edge representation is explored in conjunction with keypoint-based saliency maps for Focus-of-Attention. Recognition rates of up to 96% were achieved by combining frontal and 3/4 views, and recognition was quite robust against partial occlusions.