Profile
FaceMindLab is a scientific project site by Dipl.-Biol. Bastian J. Hirthammer. It brings together selected work and research questions on face and age perception, morphological ageing, image-based assessment, and visual judgement. The central question is how observers perceive and weight facial and age-related information in images and turn it into judgements.
Scientific approach
Faces are often judged quickly and seemingly directly. Judgements about age, similarity, or correspondence between person images nevertheless involve several steps. Visible information must be perceived, weighted, and linked to a decision threshold.
Some judgements are shared by many observers, others depend on view, image quality, task, or individual strategy. This variability shows when visual judgements remain stable and when they diverge.
Fields of work
The fields of work include visible ageing cues, 3D acquisition of head and face, image quality, and image-based assessment of similarity and difference. The key question is how observers use visible structures.
This leads to questions in visual cognition: what supports a judgement, what remains ambiguous, and when is restraint appropriate?
Applied areas
The topics concern areas such as age perception, facial comparison, image quality, and image-based visual judgement.
The work examines under which conditions image-based judgements remain traceable, limited, and empirically examinable.