Face perception is crucial to social interactions, yet people vary in how easily they can
recognize their friends, verify an identification document or notice someone's smile. There …

Human factors and their implications for forensic science have attracted increasing levels of
interest across criminal justice communities in recent years. Initial interest centred on …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments around the world now
recommend, or require, that their citizens cover the lower half of their face in public …

Photo-ID is widely used in security settings, despite research showing that viewers find it
very difficult to match unfamiliar faces. Here we test participants with specialist experience …

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 to …

Facial image comparison practitioners compare images of unfamiliar faces and decide
whether or not they show the same person. Given the importance of these decisions for …

In recent years, wide deployment of automatic face recognition systems has been
accompanied by substantial gains in algorithm performance. However, benchmarking tests …

Individuals employed in forensic or security settings are often required to compare faces of
ID holders to document photographs, or to recognise the faces of suspects in closed‐circuit …

This study presents the Kent Face Matching Test (KFMT), which comprises 200 same‐
identity and 20 different‐identity pairs of unfamiliar faces. Each face pair consists of a …

Following traumatic brain injury in adulthood, Pierrette Sapey (PS) became suddenly unable
to recognize the identity of people from their faces. Thanks to her remarkable recovery of …