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Face Recognition and Perception

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Yu-Huan Wu
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
2
Chengxu Zhuang
Stanford University
3
Carla Dance
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
4
Timo Flesch
University of Oxford
5
Antoine Toisoul
Imperial College London
6
Binwei Xu
Zhejiang University of Technology
7
Siyue Yu
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
8
Eilidh Noyes
University of Leeds
9
Zhengzheng Tu
Anhui University
10
Alexander Diel
University of Duisburg-Essen

Rising Stars Papers

1
Multidimensional Exploration of Segment Anything Model for Weakly Supervised Video Salient Object Detection
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2024
20 cit.
2
Rethinking the uncanny valley as a moderated linear function: Perceptual specialization increases the uncanniness of facial distortions
Computers in Human Behavior|2024
12 cit.
3
Deviation from typical organic voices best explains a vocal uncanny valley
Computers in Human Behavior Reports|2024
10 cit.
4
An android can show the facial expressions of complex emotions
Scientific Reports|2025
10 cit.
5
Move Anything with Layered Scene Diffusion
Unknown Journal|2024
7 cit.
6
Low-Resolution Self-Attention for Semantic Segmentation
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2025
7 cit.
7
Learning Video Salient Object Detection Progressively From Unlabeled Videos
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia|2024
5 cit.
8
Eerie edibles: Realism and food neophobia predict an uncanny valley in AI-generated food images
Appetite|2025
5 cit.
9
E-Mental Health Interventions in Inpatient Care: Scoping Review
Journal of Medical Internet Research|2025
5 cit.
10
Domain-general and -specific individual difference predictors of an uncanny valley and uncanniness effects
Computers in Human Behavior Artificial Humans|2024
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Behzad Hasani
University of Denver
2
Ming‐Ming Cheng
Nankai University
3
Talia Konkle
Harvard University Press
4
Errui Ding
Vision Technology (United States)
5
Kay L. Ritchie
University of Aberdeen
6
Hillel Aviezer
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
7
Tim C. Kietzmann
Radboud University Nijmegen
8
Galen D. McNeil
University of California, Berkeley
9
Crawford Winlove
University of Exeter
10
Jacob C. Lee
Dongguk University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
P2T: Pyramid Pooling Transformer for Scene Understanding
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2022
291 cit.
2
Localization Distillation for Dense Object Detection
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
183 cit.
3
YOLO-MS: Rethinking Multi-Scale Representation Learning for Real-Time Object Detection
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2025
160 cit.
4
Rope3D: The Roadside Perception Dataset for Autonomous Driving and Monocular 3D Object Detection Task
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
138 cit.
5
Towards An End-to-End Framework for Flow-Guided Video Inpainting
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
138 cit.
6
A self-supervised domain-general learning framework for human ventral stream representation
Nature Communications|2022
137 cit.
7
Representation Compensation Networks for Continual Semantic Segmentation
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
103 cit.
8
Class-Specific Semantic Reconstruction for Open Set Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2022
95 cit.
9
A large-scale examination of inductive biases shaping high-level visual representation in brains and machines
Nature Communications|2024
77 cit.
10
Predictive coding is a consequence of energy efficiency in recurrent neural networks
Patterns|2022
74 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Nancy Kanwisher
Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences
2
Raymond J. Dolan
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
3
H. Sebastian Seung
University of Wisconsin–Madison
4
Bruno Rossion
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
5
Gregory McCarthy
Yale University
6
António R. Damásio
University of Southern California
7
Marvin M. Chun
Yale University
8
James V. Haxby
Dartmouth College
9
Rafael Malach
Weizmann Institute of Science
10
Charles A. Nelson
Boston Children's Hospital

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Learning the parts of objects by non-negative matrix factorization
Nature|1999
14.1k cit.
2
The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception
Journal of Neuroscience|1997
7.9k cit.
3
Algorithms for Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Unknown Journal|2000
5.5k cit.
4
Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex
Science|2001
4.1k cit.
5
Deciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantageous Strategy
Science|1997
3.5k cit.
6
The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from untrained research participants
Psychiatry Research|2009
3.5k cit.
7
Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness
Nature Neuroscience|2004
3.4k cit.
8
Psychophysiological and Modulatory Interactions in Neuroimaging
NeuroImage|1997
3.2k cit.
9
Electrophysiological Studies of Face Perception in Humans
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience|1996
3.1k cit.
10
A cortical representation of the local visual environment
Nature|1998
3.1k cit.

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