diff --git a/demo/index.js b/demo/index.js
index 31961e76..db9b0cc0 100644
--- a/demo/index.js
+++ b/demo/index.js
@@ -7,31 +7,32 @@ import Menu from './helpers/menu.js';
 import GLBench from './helpers/gl-bench.js';
 import webRTC from './helpers/webrtc.js';
 
-const userConfig = { backend: 'webgl' }; // add any user configuration overrides
+// const userConfig = { backend: 'webgl' }; // add any user configuration overrides
 let human;
 
-/*
 const userConfig = {
   backend: 'humangl',
   async: false,
   profile: false,
   warmup: 'full',
   videoOptimized: false,
-  filter: { enabled: false },
-  face: { enabled: false,
+  filter: {
+    enabled: true,
+    flip: true,
+  },
+  face: { enabled: true,
     mesh: { enabled: true },
     iris: { enabled: true },
-    description: { enabled: true },
-    emotion: { enabled: true },
+    description: { enabled: false },
+    emotion: { enabled: false },
   },
   hand: { enabled: false },
-  gesture: { enabled: false },
+  gesture: { enabled: true },
   body: { enabled: false },
   // body: { enabled: true, modelPath: 'blazepose.json' },
   // body: { enabled: true, modelPath: 'efficientpose.json' },
-  object: { enabled: true },
+  // object: { enabled: true },
 };
-*/
 
 // ui options
 const ui = {
diff --git a/demo/node.js b/demo/node.js
index b7d0a728..d7d2467c 100644
--- a/demo/node.js
+++ b/demo/node.js
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ const myConfig = {
   debug: true,
   videoOptimized: false,
   async: false,
+  filter: {
+    enabled: true,
+    flip: true,
+  },
   face: {
     enabled: true,
     detector: { enabled: true, rotation: false },
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ async function detect(input) {
   // read input image file and create tensor to be used for processing
   let buffer;
   log.info('Loading image:', input);
-  if (input.startsWith('http')) {
+  if (input.startsWith('http:') || input.startsWith('https:')) {
     const res = await fetch(input);
     if (res && res.ok) buffer = await res.buffer();
     else log.error('Invalid image URL:', input, res.status, res.statusText, res.headers.get('content-type'));
@@ -62,6 +66,7 @@ async function detect(input) {
 
   // decode image using tfjs-node so we don't need external depenencies
   // can also be done using canvas.js or some other 3rd party image library
+  if (!buffer) return {};
   const decoded = human.tf.node.decodeImage(buffer);
   const casted = decoded.toFloat();
   const tensor = casted.expandDims(0);
diff --git a/src/config.ts b/src/config.ts
index fea6d0b6..c71a7968 100644
--- a/src/config.ts
+++ b/src/config.ts
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ export interface Config {
     height: number,
     /** Return processed canvas imagedata in result */
     return: boolean,
+    /** Flip input as mirror image */
+    flip: boolean,
     /** Range: -1 (darken) to 1 (lighten) */
     brightness: number,
     /** Range: -1 (reduce contrast) to 1 (increase contrast) */
@@ -82,6 +84,8 @@ export interface Config {
     /** Range: 0 (no pixelate) to N (number of pixels to pixelate) */
     pixelate: number,
   },
+  // type definition end
+
   /** Controlls gesture detection */
   gesture: {
     enabled: boolean,
@@ -250,6 +254,7 @@ const config: Config = {
                              // if both width and height are set to 0, there is no resizing
                              // if just one is set, second one is scaled automatically
                              // if both are set, values are used as-is
+    flip: false,             // flip input as mirror image
     return: true,            // return processed canvas imagedata in result
     brightness: 0,           // range: -1 (darken) to 1 (lighten)
     contrast: 0,             // range: -1 (reduce contrast) to 1 (increase contrast)
diff --git a/src/gesture/gesture.ts b/src/gesture/gesture.ts
index 61df3b8a..db9d063d 100644
--- a/src/gesture/gesture.ts
+++ b/src/gesture/gesture.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export const face = (res) => {
     if (res[i].mesh && res[i].mesh.length > 0) {
       const eyeFacing = res[i].mesh[33][2] - res[i].mesh[263][2];
       if (Math.abs(eyeFacing) < 10) gestures.push({ face: i, gesture: 'facing center' });
-      else gestures.push({ face: i, gesture: `facing ${eyeFacing < 0 ? 'right' : 'left'}` });
+      else gestures.push({ face: i, gesture: `facing ${eyeFacing < 0 ? 'left' : 'right'}` });
       const openLeft = Math.abs(res[i].mesh[374][1] - res[i].mesh[386][1]) / Math.abs(res[i].mesh[443][1] - res[i].mesh[450][1]); // center of eye inner lid y coord div center of wider eye border y coord
       if (openLeft < 0.2) gestures.push({ face: i, gesture: 'blink left eye' });
       const openRight = Math.abs(res[i].mesh[145][1] - res[i].mesh[159][1]) / Math.abs(res[i].mesh[223][1] - res[i].mesh[230][1]); // center of eye inner lid y coord div center of wider eye border y coord
diff --git a/src/image/image.ts b/src/image/image.ts
index 2d597c02..ca5f13ee 100644
--- a/src/image/image.ts
+++ b/src/image/image.ts
@@ -53,9 +53,21 @@ export function process(input, config): { tensor: typeof tf.Tensor | null, canva
       if (inCanvas?.width !== targetWidth) inCanvas.width = targetWidth;
       if (inCanvas?.height !== targetHeight) inCanvas.height = targetHeight;
     }
+
     const ctx = inCanvas.getContext('2d');
-    if (input instanceof ImageData) ctx.putImageData(input, 0, 0);
-    else ctx.drawImage(input, 0, 0, originalWidth, originalHeight, 0, 0, inCanvas?.width, inCanvas?.height);
+    if (input instanceof ImageData) {
+      ctx.putImageData(input, 0, 0);
+    } else {
+      if (!config.filter.flip) {
+        ctx.drawImage(input, 0, 0, originalWidth, originalHeight, 0, 0, inCanvas?.width, inCanvas?.height);
+      } else {
+        ctx.translate(originalWidth, 0);
+        ctx.scale(-1, 1);
+        ctx.drawImage(input, 0, 0, originalWidth, originalHeight, 0, 0, inCanvas?.width, inCanvas?.height);
+        ctx.setTransform(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0);
+      }
+    }
+
     if (config.filter.enabled) {
       if (!fx || !outCanvas || (inCanvas.width !== outCanvas.width) || (inCanvas?.height !== outCanvas?.height)) {
         outCanvas = (typeof OffscreenCanvas !== 'undefined') ? new OffscreenCanvas(inCanvas?.width, inCanvas?.height) : document.createElement('canvas');