Alice O'Toole

University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Alice O'Toole is a professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas and currently holds the Aage and Margareta Møller Endowed Chair. Her research interests include human perception, memory, and cognition, with an emphasis on computational approaches to modeling the perception of faces, bodies, and people. The goal of these efforts is to understand how high level visual representations encode identity information from in-the-wild images of people. Her work incorporates modeling of visual representations of faces and bodies using deep neural networks and machine learning. Current projects in her lab include comparisons between human and machine-based face recognition, the analysis of deep learning representations of human faces and bodies, person recognition from face and body, and modeling the relationship between language and human body shapes. She has served as Associate Editor of multiple journals including Psychological Science, the IEEE Transactions of Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, the British Journal of Psychology, and the Journal of Vision. Her work has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, DARPA, and IARPA.