A face recognition system that simulates perception impairments of autistic children

We use a face recognition algorithm to model differences in perception between autistic and non autistic children. With our model it is possible to reproduce several phenomena of autism by assuming that autistic children lack the ability to abstract from horizontal invariants. In particular, we can explain why autistic children are able to better recognize faces from parts of the face while the overall recognition of faces is worse than in non autistic children.