Computational modeling of face recognition based on psychophysical experiments

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-215

  Schwaninger, Adrian ^a,b   Wallraven, Christian ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Component and configural processing; Computational modeling; Face recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744231038     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.63.3.207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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