David White
@davidwhitephd
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Psychologist interested in people's face processing abilities.
Sydney, Australia
Joined August 2010
In our new review paper, Jonathon Phillips and I evaluate the current and future potential of #DeepLearning for modelling the face processing system in humans. Available at British Journal of Psychology @BPSOfficial
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What makes some people exceptionally good at recognising faces? New study by @dunnhappy et al @RSocPublishing shows the answer might lie in the light they capture on their retina 👁️ https://t.co/6Sw5CAbo03
theguardian.com
Research uses eye-tracking data to examine some people’s extraordinary recognition ability
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
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“Always listen for what you can leave out.” — Miles Davis
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My experience working as a software engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, on behalf of DOGE. https://t.co/zmvNNgrAW0
sahillavingia.com
My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.
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🚨@UNSW Face Lab is hiring 3-year post-doc🚨 Please retweet and contact me directly for informal enquiries https://t.co/tP8eA7YyXT
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Had a deep conversation with @shattenstone for the @guardian about my new book, FREE, about reclaiming my identity, and about the empowerment I found in being kind to the man who sent me to prison. https://t.co/aP5W6cUnJe
theguardian.com
Ten years ago she was finally cleared of the brutal murder of her housemate Meredith Kercher in Perugia. But is Knox really free?
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Artificial intelligence can’t save us from natural stupidity.
The Pentagon flagged an image of the Enola Gay—the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima—for removal, on DEI grounds, because of its name.
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🚨 Job alert! We're hiring a PhD student to work on the neural basis of face perception in super-recognisers. Come work with me, @davidwhitephd, @TGrootswagers and @ManuelVarlet at @MARCSInstitute. Applications close 31 Jan 2025. |
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Should be a great opportunity and project - excited to be involved!
🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @DrQuekles
@ManuelVarlet @TGrootswagers @davidwhitephd to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024
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G Hinton’s remarks after Nobel prize … “I am somebody who doesn’t really know what field he is in, but would like to understand how the brain works … in my attempts … I have helped to invent a technology that works surprisingly well” … +1 Psyc/Neuro run on the board ?
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🚀 New Research! 🚀 with @DrAliceTowler, @davidwhitephd 🔍 Title: Flexible Use of Facial Features Supports Face Identity Processing Our study reveals that the key to accurate face recognition lies in the flexibility of using different facial features. https://t.co/IxtNtnUtzd
growkudos.com
Recognising faces is crucial to social interactions, and also in applied settings such as criminal investigations. Research has shown that there are widespread differences in people’s ability to...
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Thanks to @EilidhNoyes Clare Sutherland @dunnhappy Martina Ventura for helpful comments on an earlier version!
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My new forthcoming book chapter reviewing research on Super-recognisers --
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Congrats James , well deserved!
Thrilled to have been awarded an @arc_gov_au #DECRA to study how diverse experiences shape #facerecognition in humans and AI at @UNSWScience. Grateful to my mentors, lab members, family, and friends for their support and excited to get started! 👨🔬🧠🖥️🤖
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Yep. The tech is pretty effective in bringing the right person into the search array if they are in the database (far better than when we published in 2015), but then people have to decide if a match is in the array, which they are terrible at …
journals.plos.org
In recent years, wide deployment of automatic face recognition systems has been accompanied by substantial gains in algorithm performance. However, benchmarking tests designed to evaluate these...
Face recognition software has problems with false positives. Sure I've seen this highlighted before by @davidwhitephd
https://t.co/nkWTbh3cIh
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Face recognition software has problems with false positives. Sure I've seen this highlighted before by @davidwhitephd
https://t.co/nkWTbh3cIh
bbc.co.uk
Live facial recognition is becoming increasingly common on UK high streets. Should we be worried?
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Finally Out! Perceptual heterogeneity in developmental prosopagnosia is continuous, not categorical https://t.co/YVRsrSXtcQ @ Cortex Journal
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