A5024512100- Face recognition and analysis
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Face and Expression Recognition
- Biometric Identification and Security
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
University of Huddersfield
2019-2024
University of Leeds
2024
University of York
2015-2019
The University of Texas at Dallas
2017-2018
Significance This study measures face identification accuracy for an international group of professional forensic facial examiners working under circumstances that apply in real world casework. Examiners and other human “specialists,” including forensically trained reviewers untrained superrecognizers, were more accurate than the control groups on a challenging test identification. Therefore, specialists are best available solution to problem We present data comparing state-of-the-art...
Face recognition is used to prove identity across a wide variety of settings. Despite this, research consistently shows that people are typically rather poor at matching faces photos. Some professional groups, such as police and passport officers, have been shown perform just poorly the general public on standard tests face recognition. However, skills subject individual variation, with some showing exceptional ability-a group has come be known 'super-recognisers'. The Metropolitan Police...
Face masks present a new challenge to face identification (here matching) and emotion recognition in Western cultures. Here, we the results of three experiments that test effect masks, also sunglasses (an occlusion individuals tend have more experienced with) on (i) familiar matching, (ii) unfamiliar matching (iii) categorization. Occlusion reduced accuracy all tasks, with most errors mask condition; however, there was little difference performance for faces compared sunglasses....
Facial image comparison is difficult for unfamiliar faces and easy familiar faces.Those conclusions are robust, but they arise from situations in which the people being identified cooperate with effort to identify them.In forensic security settings, often motivated subvert identification by manipulating their appearance, yet little known about deliberate disguise its effectiveness.We distinguish two forms of disguiseevasion (trying not look like oneself) impersonation another person).We...
Abstract Mask wearing has been required in various settings since the outbreak of COVID-19, and research shown that identity judgements are difficult for faces masks. To date, however, majority experiments on face identification with masked tested humans computer algorithms using images superimposed masks rather than people real coverings. In three we test (control participants super-recognisers) showing different types all matching concealed or unconcealed to an reference image, found a...
We often identify people using face images. This is true in occupational settings such as passport control well everyday social environments. Mapping between images and identities assumes that facial appearance stable within certain bounds. For example, a person's apparent age, gender ethnicity change slowly, if at all. It also deliberate changes beyond these bounds (i.e., disguises) would be easy to spot. Hyper-realistic masks overturn assumptions by allowing the wearer look like an...
Abstract Facial appearance changes over time as people age. This poses a challenge for individuals working in forensic settings whose role requires them to match the identity of face images. The present research aimed determine how well an international sample facial examiners could faces with substantial age gap. We tested 60 examiners, 23 professional teams, and 81 untrained control participants. Participants matched pairs photographs 10–30‐year gap between also estimated ages faces. On...
There are large individual differences in people's face recognition ability. These provide an opportunity to recruit the best face-recognisers into jobs that require accurate person identification, through implementation of ability-screening tasks. To date, screening has focused exclusively on ability; however real-world identifications can involve use other person-recognition cues. Here we incorporate body and biological motion as relevant skills for identification. We test whether...
Face identification is more accurate when people collaborate in social dyads than they work alone (Dowsett & Burton, 2015, Br. J. Psychol., 106, 433). Identification accuracy also increased the responses of two are averaged for each item to create a 'non-social' dyad (White, Kemp, Jenkins, 2013, Appl. Cogn. 27, 769; White et al., Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci., 282, 20151292). Does collaboration add benefits response averaging face identification? We compared individuals, dyads, and non-social...
Summary Low‐quality images are problematic for face identification, example, when the police identify faces from CCTV images. Here, we test whether averages, comprising multiple poor‐quality images, can improve both human and computer recognition. We created averages pixelated or nonpixelated compared accuracy using these exemplars. To provide a broad assessment of potential benefits this method, tested observers ( n = 88; Experiment 1), also recognition, smartphone application (Experiment...
Face masks and coverings are often encountered by facial examiners in high stakes forensic case work. Forensic (hereafter “facial examiners”) trained to make face identifications their decisions can be used as evidence court. While research suggests that identify unconcealed faces with accuracy, identification performance for masked is unknown. Here we provide the first test of examiner faces. An international sample 61 39 professional teams completed 20 image pairs, which consisted one mask...
Forensic facial professionals have been shown in previous studies to identify people from frontal face images more accurately than untrained participants when given 30 seconds per pair. We tested whether this superiority holds challenging conditions. Two groups of forensic (examiners, reviewers) and were three lab-based tasks: other-race identification, disguised memory. For on same-race faces, examiners superior controls; different-race controls performed comparably. Examiners for...
The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview nine assessments face processing skills. These tests have been used commonly in recent years gauge the skills perspective 'super-recognisers' with respect general population. In literature, person has considered be 'super-recogniser' based on superior scores one or more these (cf., Noyes, Phillips & O'Toole, press). provides supplement review super-recognisers aimed at readers who are unfamiliar tests. That complete summary...
ABSTRACT Forensic facial professionals have been shown in previous studies to identify people from frontal face images more accurately than untrained participants when given 30 s per pair. We tested whether this superiority holds challenging conditions. Two groups of forensic (examiners, reviewers) and were three lab‐based tasks: other‐race identification, disguised memory. For on same‐race faces, examiners superior controls; different‐race controls performed comparably. Examiners for...
Accurate face recognition is easy for viewers who are familiar with the faces concerned, but highly error prone unfamiliar them (Bruce, 1986; Burton et al. 1999). An influential proposal that people become good at recognizing a by learning its configuration—specifically, distances between facial features. Here we test this experimentally using natural manipulation of these distances. Harper & Latto (2001) showed changing camera-to-subject distance also changes However, their pioneering study...
Face identification performance is very different for familiar and unfamiliar faces. Unfamiliar viewers typically perform poorly even in paired matching tasks, whereas with high levels of accuracy. However, these standard results are based on studies which the person being identified cooperating effort to identify them. In real world, people may have strong incentives avoid by disguising themselves. Here we ask whether familiarity a face can help viewer see through disguise. We distinguish...