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Performance of typical and superior face recognizers on a novel interactive face matching procedure
Author(s) -
Smith Harriet M. J.,
Andrews Sally,
Baguley Thom S.,
Colloff Melissa F.,
Davis Josh P.,
White David,
Rockey James C.,
Flowe Heather D.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/bjop.12499
Subject(s) - matching (statistics) , orientation (vector space) , computer science , interactivity , face (sociological concept) , artificial intelligence , computer vision , facial recognition system , identification (biology) , psychology , pattern recognition (psychology) , multimedia , mathematics , social science , statistics , geometry , sociology , botany , biology
Unfamiliar simultaneous face matching is error prone. Reducing incorrect identification decisions will positively benefit forensic and security contexts. The absence of view‐independent information in static images likely contributes to the difficulty of unfamiliar face matching. We tested whether a novel interactive viewing procedure that provides the user with 3D structural information as they rotate a facial image to different orientations would improve face matching accuracy. We tested the performance of ‘typical’ (Experiment 1) and ‘superior’ (Experiment 2) face recognizers, comparing their performance using high‐quality (Experiment 3) and pixelated (Experiment 4) Facebook profile images. In each trial, participants responded whether two images featured the same person with one of these images being either a static face, a video providing orientation information, or an interactive image. Taken together, the results show that fluid orientation information and interactivity prompt shifts in criterion and support matching performance. Because typical and superior face recognizers both benefited from the structural information provided by the novel viewing procedures, our results point to qualitatively similar reliance on pictorial encoding in these groups. This also suggests that interactive viewing tools can be valuable in assisting face matching in high‐performing practitioner groups.