Symmetry, probability, and recognition in face space

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6895-6899

  Sirovich, Lawrence ^a   Meytlis, Marsha ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Face dimension; Face recognition; Probability distributions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING ALGORITHM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

PRIMATES;

FACE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 66349104849     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812680106     Document Type: Article

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