This is why beekeepers tend to be attractive: because bees, like humans, are drawn to handsome faces.
"A honeybee brain has a million neurons, compared with the 100 billion in a human brain. But, researchers report, bees can recognize faces, and they even do it the same way we do. Bees and humans both use a technique called configural processing, piecing together the components of a face — eyes, ears, nose and mouth — to form a recognizable pattern, a team of researchers report in the Feb. 15 issue of The Journal of Experimental Biology.
But while the research on bees is interesting, it does not help with the most difficult problem technologists are having, said David Forsyth, a computer science professor at the University of Illinois, whose research focuses on computer vision.
That challenging problem is to build systems that can recognize the same people over a period of time, Dr. Forsyth said, after their hair has grown, or when they have sunglasses on, or after they have aged. These are all tasks that humans can usually perform but that computers struggle to replicate.
'I highly doubt that bees can tell the difference,' Dr. Forsyth said, adding, 'If bees did that, I’d fall off my chair.'”
If You Swat, Watch Out: Bees Remember Faces
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
Published: February 1, 2010
I hope he doesn't break his hip.
"A honeybee brain has a million neurons, compared with the 100 billion in a human brain. But, researchers report, bees can recognize faces, and they even do it the same way we do. Bees and humans both use a technique called configural processing, piecing together the components of a face — eyes, ears, nose and mouth — to form a recognizable pattern, a team of researchers report in the Feb. 15 issue of The Journal of Experimental Biology.
But while the research on bees is interesting, it does not help with the most difficult problem technologists are having, said David Forsyth, a computer science professor at the University of Illinois, whose research focuses on computer vision.
That challenging problem is to build systems that can recognize the same people over a period of time, Dr. Forsyth said, after their hair has grown, or when they have sunglasses on, or after they have aged. These are all tasks that humans can usually perform but that computers struggle to replicate.
'I highly doubt that bees can tell the difference,' Dr. Forsyth said, adding, 'If bees did that, I’d fall off my chair.'”
If You Swat, Watch Out: Bees Remember Faces
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
Published: February 1, 2010
I hope he doesn't break his hip.
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