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anticaricature

anticaricature noun: in facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look more like the average face.

Noun

anticaricature (plural anticaricatures)

  1. In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look more like the average face.
    • A number of experiments have looked at anticaricatures, that is interpolations of the individual face towards the average, and even antifaces, which extrapolate the original face onto the other side of the mean (Blanz et al. 2000).2005, John G. Clement, Murray K. Marks, Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction, page 293

Forms of anticaricature

pluralanticaricatures

Origin of anticaricature

From anti- + caricature.

Questions about anticaricature

What does anticaricature mean?
Anticaricature means in facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look more like the average face.
What part of speech is anticaricature?
Anticaricature is a noun.
What is the plural of anticaricature?
The plural of anticaricature is anticaricatures.

Words near anticaricature in the dictionary

  1. anticardinal
  2. anticardinals
  3. anticardiolipin
  4. anticardiovascular
  5. anticardium
  6. anticaricature
  7. anticaricatures
  8. anticaries
  9. anticariogenic
  10. anticariogenicity
  11. anticarious

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