The 14th Asian Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) was celebrated in Hangzhou (China). Researchers from all over the world attended and presented their research at this scientific meeting. This conference covers all the aspects of vision from low level vision (i.e., texture and shape perception) to more high level visual processes (i.e., object and face recognition).
I gave an oral communication whereby I presented a study exploring the number of eye fixations required to recognize unfamiliar and familiar faces. These experiments have shown that, in contrast to what it was previously considered, unfamiliar faces identification is a extremely complicate, and even when observers can look at the face freely, they are only to identify faces at chance levels. However, familiar face recognition is robust and with only one fixation observers were able to identify more than 90% of faces.
Hsin-Yuan Chen, the PhD student I am co-supervising, also presented his research at this conference. In his study, he has shown that faces and hands are processed more efficiently compared to bodies and other objects.