Dogs are better than cats

Dog person or cat person? With this picture you can be both.

This single image is both doe-eyed puppy and sour-faced cat, depending on which way is up. A neat reminder that in Vision Science—and in Generative AI—perspective really is everything.

So yes, it looks like pet content, but it’s actually perception engineering.

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Technical notes

This image was created with DeepFloyd/IF-II-M-v1.0 using the technique described by Geng, Park & Owens, 2024 The image has been processed through an automated pipeline to generate both invisible and visible watermarks for copyright protection.

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