The research, Disguising Superman: How glasses affect
unfamiliar face matching, is published in Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Here, we investigated
unfamiliar face matching, showing participants two unconstrained faces of strangers, with and without glasses, and asked whether the images are the same person or two different people.»
Not exact matches
Have a look at the pre
match training pictures on the Arsenal website and you will see quite a few
unfamiliar faces.
Manchester City may still at the top of the Premier League after 11
matches, but the season so far has been dominated by some of the division's less heralded clubs and a few
unfamiliar faces.
This is something we wanted to investigate further, because we know from previous studies that people are relatively poor at
matching faces in various guises when the person is
unfamiliar to them.
The results suggest that people generally find it difficult to correctly
match unfamiliar and uncontrolled
face images, but they are significantly worse when glasses are worn by only one of the
faces.
Previous study at the University has shown that it is difficult to
match a pair of
unfamiliar faces — a photo of a person, against the real person — presenting significant issues for authorities to spot identity fraud.
Matching unfamiliar faces with photographic identity documents — such as passports — or trying to spot criminals in a crowd or CCTV footage is a difficult and error - prone task for the majority of the population.