Even though they cover most of our features, face masks are no match for our highly-evolved capacity to recognise friends.
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Emotion recognition technology raises questions about bias, privacy and mass surveillance.
The people who are excellent at recognising faces might also excel at recognising voices.
Psychologists are hoping a new, extra-difficult facial recognition test will help unearth more of Australia’s top performers in facial recognition — known as 'super-recognisers'.
With face masks now compulsory or recommended in various parts of the country, how are facial recognition systems functioning?
Your ability to recognise faces may have some connection to your extroversion, empathy levels and anxiety.
If you thought police surveillance was mere CCTV, it's time to catch up on what's happening on the other side of the lens.
Facial recognition is a crucial skill, but difficult to test accurately. Researchers are taking advantage of the popularity of Game of Thrones to test the limits of our ability to identify a familiar face.
Even the world’s best available training – used to train police, border control agents and other security personnel – does not compensate for natural talent in face recognition.
Same person or different person? Most people are extremely good at recognising faces of people they know well, but not so much strangers. See how well you perform on the tests in this story.
As CCTV cameras become more widespread, it's becoming more difficult for people to protect their locational privacy in public.
We're working on a 'cure' for congenital prosopagnosia.
Some people have a remarkable aptitude for recognising a face – are you one of them?
As many as one in 50 people are face blind, meaning they can't tell one face from another.
The death of the Brazilian electrician at the hands of the Metropolitan Police was a notorious case of mistaken identity. The same thing would probably happen today.
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Scientia Fellow, UNSW
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Bournemouth University
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Strathclyde
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Professor, Department of Journalism, Film and Television, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, University of Stirling
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Professor of Optometry, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer, Vision Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor and Director, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy, University of Stirling
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Lecturer in Optometry, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of East London
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Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, University of Lincoln
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Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
