Poggio and Vetter (1992) showed that learning one view of a bilaterally symmetric object could be sufficient for its recognition, if this view allows the computation of a symmetric, "virtual," view. Faces are roughly bilaterally symmetric objects. Learning a side-view--which always has a symmetric view--should allow for better generalization performances than learning the frontal view. Two psychophysical experiments tested these predictions. Stimuli were views of shaded 3D models of laser-scanned faces. The first experiment tested whether a particular view of a face was canonical. The second experiment tested which single views of a face give rise to best generalization performances. The results were compatible with the symmetry hypothesis: Learning a side view allowed better generalization performances than learning the frontal view.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/7213 |
| Date | 01 August 1993 |
| Creators | Schyns, Philippe G., Bulthoff, Heinrich H. |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 6 p., 215801 bytes, 746385 bytes, application/octet-stream, application/pdf |
| Relation | AIM-1432, CBCL-081 |
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