The utility of surface reflectance for the recognition of upright and inverted faces

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-165

  Russell, Richard ^a,b   Biederman, Irving ^c   Nederhouser, Marissa ^c   Sinha, Pawan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Face recognition; Inversion; Pigmentation; Reflectance; Representation; Shape; Surface

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FACE; FACIES; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33845774338     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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