March 22, 2007

03-20-2007: Visual Individual Identity


The fingerprint may be the most reliable and trusted form of individual identity. But the face is the universal common denominator in visual recognition. This New York Times article decodes some research into our perception of faces. Interesting finding of a study in the article suggests that like the computer, the human brain processes faces holistically, like coherent landscapes, rather than one feature at a time.

I am fascinated by the different faces I get to see in all sorts of places in our daily life. I photograph a lot of them. Above one is a mosaic of that habit.

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