How is bilateral symmetry of human faces used for recognition of novel views?

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-89

  Troje, Nikolaus F ^a,b   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Symmetry; Viewpoint invariance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0031986479     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00165-X     Document Type: Article

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