Difficult to Recognize An Inverted Face (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Difficult to Recognize An Inverted Face

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Image 1 shows a normal (left) and an inverted face image (the eyes and nose were tampered with) (right). Unless the image is turned over, it is difficult to realize the peculiarity of the "thacherized" face. In this study, researchers show the reason why face recognition is ineffective when the face is shown inverted.

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National Institute for Physiological Sciences

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