The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications took place in Stirling, Scotland, UK, from June 23 through July 4, 1997. The meeting brought together 95 participants (including 18 invited lecturers) from 22 countries. The lecturers are leading researchers from academia, govemment, and industry from allover the world. The lecturers presented an encompassing view of face recognition, and identified trends for future developments and the means for implementing robust face recognition systems. The scientific programme consisted of invited lectures, three panels, and (oral and poster) presentations from students attending the AS!. As a result of lively interactions between the participants, the following topics emerged as major themes of the meeting: (i) human processing of face recognition and its relevance to forensic systems, (ii) face coding, (iii) connectionist methods and support vector machines (SVM), (iv) hybrid methods for face recognition, and (v) predictive learning and performance evaluation. The goals of the panels were to provide links among the lectures and to emphasis the themes of the meeting. The topics of the panels were: (i) How the human visual system processes faces, (ii) Issues in applying face recognition: data bases, evaluation and systems, and (iii) Classification issues involved in face recognition. The presentations made by students gave them an opportunity to receive feedback from the invited lecturers and suggestions for future work.
Editors and Affiliations
Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
Harry Wechsler
NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
P. Jonathon Phillips
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK
Vicki Bruce
Atos Ingénierie Integration, Clamart Cedex, France
Françoise Fogelman Soulié
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
Thomas S. Huang
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Face Recognition
Book Subtitle: From Theory to Applications
Editors: Harry Wechsler, P. Jonathon Phillips, Vicki Bruce, Françoise Fogelman Soulié, Thomas S. Huang
