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Computer Science, Software Engineering
Prashanth Chandran, Sebastian Winberg, Gaspard Zoss, Jeremy Riviere, Markus Gross, Paulo Gotardo, Derek Bradley
Summary: Researchers have developed a method to automatically and seamlessly create photorealistic full-head portrait renders by combining incomplete, high-quality renderings of facial skin with neural rendering techniques. This method projects skin renders into a pre-trained neural network to generate synthetic hair, eyes, inner mouth, and surroundings, preserving the identity of the digital human. This innovation allows for realistic rendering over animated sequences, depicting different expressions, lighting conditions, and viewpoints.
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yang Chen, Feizhou Tong, Lun Zhao, Gang Sun
Summary: This study suggests that young patients with major depressive disorder have intact perceptual mechanisms for processing faces in the early stages, relying primarily on global/configural information.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
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Engineering, Biomedical
Jamie A. O'Reilly, Jordan Wehrman, Aaron Carey, Jennifer Bedwin, Thomas Hourn, Fawad Asadi, Paul F. Sowman
Summary: In this study, a computational model consisting of a three-dimensional convolutional neural network and a recurrent neural network was developed to investigate the sensitivity of the brain to facial event-related potentials (ERP). The model successfully simulated and predicted ERP waveforms in both simulated and real experiments. This approach has significant value in visual neuroscience research for studying the computational relationship between visual stimuli and neural activity.
JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sonia Poltoratski, Kendrick Kay, Dawn Finzi, Kalanit Grill-Spector
Summary: It is unknown how spatial processing in high-level regions contributes to recognition behavior, but this study found that in face-selective regions, pRFs and overall visual field coverage are smaller and shifted down in response to face inversion. The researchers successfully predicted the relative behavioral detriment of face inversion based on these measurements, demonstrating a correspondence between neural measurements and behavior. The study suggests that spatial processing in high-level visual regions may enable holistic perception and bridge neural computations by receptive fields to behavior.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Baijuan Shi
Summary: This paper studies a specific n x n matrix and its Hadamard inverse, which have elements in exponential form. The determinants, leading principal minor, and inversions of the matrices are examined. Additionally, the Euclidean norms, l(p) norms, and spectral norms of these matrices are defined rather than giving upper and lower bounds, differentiating it from other articles.
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Geochemistry & Geophysics
Wei Zhou, Lichao Nie, Yongheng Zhang, Yonghao Pang, Zhao Dong, Zhimin An, Zhengyu Liu, Chuanyi Ma
Summary: Most existing electrical-resistivity-based tunnel prospecting methods are limited by the available space for electrodes, leading to less accurate imaging of water-bearing structures. The Chert and Bsert methods using borehole space have been proven effective in obtaining better images of deep anomalies. This study focused on the Tberi method in tunnels, optimizing the configuration to achieve more accurate detection of abnormal objects in the target area.
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Fang Tian, Hailun Xie, Yiying Song, Siyuan Hu, Jia Liu
Summary: The face inversion effect is a behavioral marker of face-specific processing. In an artificial face system, inverted faces were miscategorized as objects and represented in a similar fashion as objects.
FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Gavan P. McNally, Philip Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel, E. Zayra Millan, Andrew J. Lawrence
Summary: The persistence of drug taking despite its adverse consequences has a significant impact on addiction. There are at least three pathways involved in persistent drug use: cognitive recognition of adverse consequences, motivational valuation of these consequences, and behavioral responses to adverse consequences. These pathways are dynamic and can lead to different trajectories of behavior change. Understanding and targeting these pathways are important for effective treatment.
MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
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Automation & Control Systems
Yundi Chu, Juntao Fei, Shixi Hou
Summary: This paper presents a dual-loop recursive fuzzy neural network (DRFNN) based adaptive controller for a type of nonlinear dynamic systems. Compared to conventional FNN, this controller allows arbitrary parameter setting and achieves higher approximation accuracy and learning speed.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Yuzhao Lin, Huaishan Liu, Lei Xing, Haoran Lin
Summary: Full waveform inversion (FWI) evaluates subsurface media properties by minimizing the misfit between synthetic and observed data. This study introduces a new form of FWI, called Wavefield Reconstruction Inversion (WRI), which combines theoretical and measurement errors to handle nonphysical data, addressing some practical issues.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Kuo Liu, Chiu-Yueh Chen, Le-Si Wang, Hanshin Jo, Chun-Chia Kung
Summary: This study empirically evaluates the findings of Brants et al. by comparing two documented training paradigms and their impact on the brain. The results invalidate the assumptions behind Brants et al.'s findings.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Christian Gerlach, Christina D. Kuhn, Andre Beyer Mathiassen, Carina Louise Kristensen, Randi Starrfelt
Summary: The face inversion effect (FIE) occurs when upside-down presentation of stimuli impairs face processing more than other mono-oriented objects. Previous studies mainly compared upright face individuation, which people are good at, with object individuation that people are less familiar with. Therefore, the FIE may reflect differences in how categories are processed prior to inversion. However, new research suggests that the FIE is a product of familiarity with the identification process in upright conditions, rather than a selective effect for faces when stimuli are inverted.
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Xin Shu, Xiaojie Li, Xin Zuo, Dan Xu, Jinlong Shi
Summary: Face recognition technology (FRT) has faced unprecedented challenges due to the misuse of personal face photos on social media, leading to the development of face spoofing detection technology. Traditional methods for face spoofing detection suffer from low accuracy and generality. To address this issue, a multi-scale color inversion dual-stream convolutional neural network called MSCI-DSCNN is proposed. It achieves promising results on publicly available databases and exhibits great effectiveness in cross-database experiments.
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Lian Zhao, Kai Lin, Xiaotao Wen, Yuqiang Zhang
Summary: Traditional seismic inversion suffers from low lateral resolution and poor anti-noise performance. To address these issues, a combination of time and frequency domain inversion methods is used, along with introducing the Lp norm for preserving sparsity information. Multitrace simultaneous inversion is adopted as the mainstream method, but its high computational costs and difficulty in obtaining 3-D results pose challenges. A proposed 3-D global prestack inversion method in the time-frequency mixed domain improves resolution and computational efficiency, while ensuring spatial continuity.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Kelly J. Jantzen, Nicole McNamara, Adam Harris, Anna Schubert, Michael Brooks, Matthew Seifert, Lawrence A. Symons
Summary: Previous research has shown that reversing the contrast of the eye region affects the N170 ERP. This study specifically evaluated the impact of reversing the contrast of just the iris and sclera on the N170 in upright and inverted faces. The results indicate that the contrast of the eyes is an important contributor to the N170 ERP, affecting only the amplitude for upright faces.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Correction
Neurosciences
Robin Laycock, Kylie Wood, Andrea Wright, Sheila G. Crewther, Melvyn A. Goodale
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Review
Neurosciences
Dylan M. Fox, Melvyn A. Goodale, James A. Bourne
TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
(2020)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Robert L. Whitwell, Irene Sperandio, Gavin Buckingham, Philippe A. Chouinard, Melvyn A. Goodale
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Ophthalmology
Jie Gao, Athena Ko, Yoshiko Yabe, Melvyn A. Goodale, Juan Chen
Correction
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Robert L. Whitwell, Irene Sperandio, Gavin Buckingham, Philippe A. Chouinard, Melvyn A. Goodale
Article
Neurosciences
Mutindi C. Kithu, Elizabeth J. Saccone, Sheila G. Crewther, Melvyn A. Goodale, Philippe A. Chouinard
Summary: This study investigated the impact of differences in processing real tools and 2D tool images on tool naming, finding that the format of the prime tool presentation did not affect participants' response times in naming the target tool. Participants were faster at naming target tools when the same tool was presented as both the prime and target.
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2021)
Editorial Material
Psychology
Robert L. Whitwell, Melvyn A. Goodale
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tzvi Ganel, Melvyn A. Goodale
Summary: Smiling faces are perceived as older than neutral faces due to smile-related wrinkles around the eyes, but this effect disappears in older adults. For middle-aged adults, however, the effect is only present in male faces with more prominent smile-related wrinkles. These results suggest that apparent age perception is holistic, taking into account age-related cues in different regions of the face.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Daria Proklova, Melvyn A. Goodale
Summary: The human ventral temporal cortex shows distinct response patterns to animate and inanimate objects. The presence of a face is a prominent feature that distinguishes animals from inanimate objects and could explain the animate-inanimate distinction in the VTC. This fMRI study found that animals with faces elicit a stronger animate/inanimate response in the VTC, but faces are not necessary to observe high-level animacy information in certain regions of the VTC.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Tzvi Ganel, Melvyn A. Goodale
Summary: The widespread use of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic has hindered the recognition of face identity and expression, as well as the interpretation of speech from facial cues. However, it is unclear how masks affect the perception of age from facial cues.
COGNITIVE RESEARCH-PRINCIPLES AND IMPLICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Saxon Goold, Melanie J. Murphy, Melvyn A. Goodale, Sheila G. Crewther, Robin Laycock
Summary: This study investigates the atypical social attention disengagement in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the broader autism phenotype. Eye-tracking is used to measure the time it takes to disengage attention from a central task-irrelevant face and orient to a peripheral nonsocial target. The results show that individuals with higher autism-like traits have faster saccadic responses in detecting the nonsocial target.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biology
Robert L. L. Whitwell, Mehul A. A. Garach, Melvyn A. A. Goodale, Irene Sperandio
Summary: Perceiving and grasping an object present different computational problems for animals. Primates have developed separate neural networks specialized in visual processing with different object representations to solve this problem. The Ebbinghaus illusion minimally affects the grasping hand's aperture, which normally scales with target size, suggesting that grasps are refractory to the illusion due to fixation on the target rather than the surrounding context. However, our study found that both limb and gaze tracking failed to explain this dissociation, supporting the idea that object perception and goal-directed action rely on distinct visual representations.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Letter
Behavioral Sciences
Melvyn A. Goodale, A. David Milner
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Robert L. Whitwell, Nathan J. Katz, Melvyn A. Goodale, James T. Enns
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Tzvi Ganel, Aviad Ozana, Melvyn A. Goodale
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2020)
