morphmet: facial recognition software

[Matthew Burton-Kelly]

Hi all,
A friend of mine is doing work in experimental psychology with change  
blindness and so she's working with a number of faces that she's  
culled from photographs and having graded (preliminarily) according to  
similarity/distinctiveness by people outside the experiment.  The  
mechanics of the experiment don't really matter, but the first thing I  
thought was that having an objective computerized measure of  
similarity would be beneficial (or at least interesting) to have.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any facial recognition software that  
would be available for free for research purposes.  Ideally I'm  
looking for a complete application rather than an algorithm, but if  
anyone has any other ideas or references to which they could point me,  
I would be most grateful since this is out of my area of expertise.

Thanks,
Matt



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Matthew Burton-Kelly, M.S.
Graduate Student
Department of Geology and Geological Engineering
University of North Dakota
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