Face recognition: Not just about processing speed
Researcher tests people’s reactions to recognizing faces. Research focused on how people recognize a person that has different emotions versus other major physical traits. Interesting.
Dig.com posts, “Face recognition is a task which humans do with little effort, even though in fact it’s a tremendously difficult problem. To recognize a face, we need to be able to ignore traits that change over time, while focusing in on details that remain constant.”
I’m not sure how well computer’s really are at recognizing faces. I do not recognize faces very well. If a woman changes her hairdo, I have a hard time recognizing her. I would assume that a computer has the same problem with changes in hair and beard as well as changes in emotions.