DYNAMIC FACES Insights from Experiments and Computation

"Faces do not appear out of the blue, as frozen statues. At any moment a face will have a complex movement history that provides a feast of information about identity, speech, mood, and even physical pain. This book collates the leading work on how we understand such things from facial motion, tracking the progress made with computer science in decoding and reconstructing ever more lifelike changing faces. It is rare to see an artificial intelligence approach building on the behavioral psychology and neuroscience of dynamic face recognition. Each of these areas of endeavor is well represented, giving the book a sense of overall coherence." David Perrett, School of Psychology, St. Andrews University "Given that time and timing are central to social interaction, to the control of ongoing behavior, and indeed to phenomenal consciousness itself, the omission of dynamics from most of the attempts to date to understand face processing is puzzling. The present book goes a long way toward filling this lacuna. The editors' effective mix of chapters on psychophysics, neurobiology, and computational modeling of dynamic faces is likely to prove both a landmark and a resource for future efforts." Shimon Edelman, author of Computing the Mind: How the Mind Really Works