PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi reddit, my name is David and my PLOS ONE
study shows untrained humans and computers make similar errors when
confirming identification by facial recognition – Ask Me Anything!
Abstract
Hi Reddit, My name is Dr. David Robertson and I am Teaching & Research
Fellow at the School of Psychological Sciences & Health, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK). My research focuses on applied face
recognition and the use of this biometric in policing and security
contexts. I recently published a study (Robertson DJ, Kramer RSS, Burton
AM (2017)) titled Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human
and automatic recognition in PLOS ONE. Across three experiments we
assessed the extent to which human operators and a smartphone algorithm
accepted face morphs as a genuine match to a target face. Face morphs do
represent a route to identity fraud in humans and machine recognition
systems, human detection of these images can be improved through
awareness training. I will be answering your questions at 1pm ET. Ask me
Anything! Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter @UOSPsychology York
FaceVar Lab website here.