Jason Haberman
Research:
Our visual system encounters an enormous amount of information at any given moment. We use heuristics to cope with this influx of data. One such heuristic, known as ensemble coding, exploits the redundancy present in natural scenes. We derive summary statistics to represent groups of similar items, and my research (e.g., Current Bio, JEP:HPP) suggests that we even do this for high-level objects such as faces. This heuristic process allows us to represent copious amounts of information in a succinct and elegant manner.
Other interests:
-Viola (http://music.ucdavis.edu/symphony/roster-1/jason-haberman)
-Social dance (www.dancingtonight.com)
-Persian culture
Publications:
Haberman, J, Harp, T, and Whitney, D (2009). Averaging facial expression over time. Journal of Vision 9(11):1-13.
Haberman, J and Whitney, D (2007). Rapid extraction of mean emotion and gender from sets of faces.Curr Biol 17(17):R751-53.