Transfer between pose and illumination training in face recognition.

Full Abstract

The relationship between pose and illumination learning in face recognition was examined in a yes-no recognition paradigm. The authors assessed whether pose training can transfer to a new illumination or vice versa. Results show that an extensive level of pose training through a face-name association task was able to generalize to a new illumination (Experiments 1 and 3), but an equal level of illumination training failed to generalize to a new pose (Experiment 2). The transfer of pose training was likely to depend on a relatively extensive level of training because the same faces with reduced level of exposure (Experiment 4) were unable to reproduce the transfer effect. The findings suggest that generalization of pose training may be extended to different types of image variation, whereas generalization of illumination training may be confined within the trained type of variation.

Author information

Author/s: Liu, Chang Hong (CH); Bhuiyan, Md Al-Amin (MA); Ward, James (J); Sui, Jie (J);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK. c.h.liu(-atsign-)hull.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Aug; vol 35 (issue 4) : pp 939-47

Dates: Created 2009/08/05; Completed 2009/10/06;

PMID: 19653740, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 10/6/2009, IMS Date: )

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