Professor Shares Eigenfaces Visualization from Early Research

Kosta Derpanis, an associate professor at York University, posted a visualization of eigenfaces. He noted that the technique dominated computer vision when he began his undergraduate research. Derpanis credited foundational papers by Sirovich and Kirby along with Pentland and Turk. He also mentioned related contributions from Allan Jepson, David Fleet, Michael Black, and multidimensional extensions by AlexTensor. The post included an attached video of a dark-themed interactive display.