This study investigates the effect of distinctive marks on the recognition of unfamiliar faces across view angles. Subjects were asked to memorize a set of target faces, half of which had distinctive marks. Recognition was assessed by presenting the target faces, either in the same orientation, or after 90 degrees rotation, mixed with an equal number of distractors.
Results show that the effect of distinctive marks depends on the view presented during learning.
1997 Doc 4 Face recognition across large viewpoint changes - O'Toole, Bulthoff et al.