Automated facial coding software outperforms people in recognizing neutral faces as neutral from standardized datasets

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lewinski, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

automated facial coding; face recognition; facial expression; neutral face; non verbal communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949663025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01386     Document Type: Article

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