anticaricature

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noun

In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look more like the average face.

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Meanings

nounanticaricature (plural anticaricatures)

plural anticaricatures

  1. computingIn 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

Origin

From anti- + caricature.

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APA

anticaricature. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticaricature

MLA

“anticaricature.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticaricature. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anticaricature,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticaricature.

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