Can We Improve National Security Using What We Know About Face Recognition? by Anna K. Bobak | Free Audiobook

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Title: Can We Improve National Security Using What We Know About Face Recognition?
Author: Anna K. Bobak, Viktoria R. Mileva, Peter J. B. Hancock
Narrator: Jef Holbrook
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-24-17
Publisher: Scientific American
Genres: Science & Technology, Magazine & Radio

Summary:
Studies show that people are poor at recognizing unfamiliar faces (ones we encounter for the first time, or have seen only briefly). This is true not only when we have to memorize the faces of new people, but also when the task is to compare images presented at the same time (such as matching a passport photo with a drivers license photo). People also struggle to sort photographs by identity: For example, when shown a deck of forty photographs depicting only two different people, participants tend to think that the images show, on average, seven different people. Studies of a fairly simple matching task, where participants must decide whether two photographs show the same person or two different people, tell us that under optimal conditions people make mistakes on at least 10% of the trials. The situation is further complicated by the fact that photos in identity documents are often valid for ten years, during which ones appearance can change substantially.
"Can We Improve National Security Using What We Know About Face Recognition?" is from scientificamerican.com, published on April 18, 2017.

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