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Everything about Face
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The face is "the front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area." While that basic structure is found in many animals, the evolutionary development of mammals has led to a wide diversity of facial types between those species, identifiable by characteristics of facial features and expressive behaviors. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: FaceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threatsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Contemporary NutritionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Robust Real-Time Face DetectionCited 10,112 times
- Go sideways: Face perceptionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Facial expressionA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
Noun One's facial expression.
Noun One's facial expression.
Noun A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Robust Real-Time Face Detection
Robust Face Recognition via Sparse Representation
The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception
Joint Face Detection and Alignment Using Multitask Cascaded Convolutional Networks
Face Description with Local Binary Patterns: Application to Face Recognition
Face recognition
From few to many: illumination cone models for face recognition under variable lighting and pose
Constants across cultures in the face and emotion.
🆕 Influential since 2022
Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats
ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition
Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a “face‐lifted” ConSurf
YOLO-FaceV2: A scale and occlusion aware face detector
InterFaceGAN: Interpreting the Disentangled Face Representation Learned by GANs
📚 Books worth reading
Contemporary NutritionGordon M. Wardlaw, Anne M Smith · 1992
WonderR. J. Palacio · 2001
Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und MenschenliebeJohann Caspar Lavater · 1775
Dentofacial deformitiesBruce N. Epker, John Paul Stella · 1980- 📕Injectable FillersDerek H. Jones, Arthur Swift · 2010
Bone GapLaura Ruby · 2015
One day in DecemberJosie Silver · 2018
Face RecognitionJames Tanaka · 2015
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Face perception Facial perception is an individual's understanding and interpretation of the face. Here, perception implies the presence of consciousness and hence excludes…
- Facial expression Facial expression is a motion and positioning of the muscles beneath the skin of the face. These movements convey the emotional state of an individual…
- Prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's…
- Fusiform face area The fusiform face area (FFA, meaning spindle-shaped face area) is a part of the human visual system (while also activated in people blind from birth) that…
- Face inversion effect The face inversion effect is a phenomenon in which identifying upside-down faces compared to upright faces is much more difficult than doing the same for…
- Human physical appearance Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. There are functionally infinite variations in human phenotypes, though society…
- Emotion perception Emotion perception refers to the capacities and abilities of recognizing and identifying emotions in others, in addition to biological and physiological…
- Fusiform gyrus The fusiform gyrus, also known as the lateral occipitotemporal gyrus, is part of the temporal lobe and occipital lobe in Brodmann area 37. The fusiform…