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 …

Achieving the upper limits of face identification accuracy in forensic applications can
minimize errors that have profound social and personal consequences. Although forensic …

The recent discovery of individuals with superior face processing ability has sparked
considerable interest amongst cognitive scientists and practitioners alike. These 'Super …

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 …

Facial recognition errors can jeopardize national security, criminal justice, public safety and
civil rights. Here, we compare the most accurate humans and facial recognition technology …

Abstract Automated Facial Recognition Systems (AFRS) are used by governments, law
enforcement agencies, and private businesses to verify the identity of individuals. Although …

People vary in their ability to identify faces, and this variability is relatively stable across
repeated testing. This suggests that recruiting high performers can improve identity …

Facial image comparison is difficult for unfamiliar faces and easy for familiar faces. Those
conclusions are robust, but they arise from situations in which the people being identified …

Establishing someone's identity is central to many of the security procedures we rely on to
maintain law and order, and protect national security. One of the most common methods of …

A wealth of studies have shown that humans are remarkably poor at determining whether
two face images show the same person or not (face matching). Given the prevalence of …