Face recognition by humans and machines: three fundamental advances from deep learning

AJ O'Toole, CD Castillo - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Deep learning models currently achieve human levels of performance on real-world face
recognition tasks. We review scientific progress in understanding human face processing …

Distributed and interactive brain mechanisms during emotion face perception: evidence from functional neuroimaging

P Vuilleumier, G Pourtois - Neuropsychologia, 2007 - Elsevier
Brain imaging studies in humans have shown that face processing in several areas is
modulated by the affective significance of faces, particularly with fearful expressions, but …

The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition with super-recognizers and typical observers

E Noyes, JP Davis, N Petrov… - Royal Society open …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Face masks present a new challenge to face identification (here matching) and emotion
recognition in Western cultures. Here, we present the results of three experiments that test …

Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces

DJ Carragher, PJB Hancock - Cognitive research: principles and …, 2020 - Springer
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments around the world now
recommend, or require, that their citizens cover the lower half of their face in public …

Passport officers' errors in face matching

D White, RI Kemp, R Jenkins, M Matheson, AM Burton - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Photo-ID is widely used in security settings, despite research showing that viewers find it
very difficult to match unfamiliar faces. Here we test participants with specialist experience …

The Glasgow face matching test

AM Burton, D White, A McNeill - Behavior research methods, 2010 - Springer
We describe a new test for unfamiliar face matching, the Glasgow Face Matching Test
(GFMT). Viewers are shown pairs of faces, photographed in full-face view but with different …

Deciphering the enigmatic face: The importance of facial dynamics in interpreting subtle facial expressions

Z Ambadar, JW Schooler, JF Cohn - Psychological science, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Most studies investigating the recognition of facial expressions have focused on static
displays of intense expressions. Consequently, researchers may have underestimated the …

Why has research in face recognition progressed so slowly? The importance of variability

A Mike Burton - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite many years of research, there has been surprisingly little progress in our
understanding of how faces are identified. Here I argue that there are two contributory …

Identity from variation: Representations of faces derived from multiple instances

AM Burton, RSS Kramer, KL Ritchie… - Cognitive …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Research in face recognition has tended to focus on discriminating between individuals, or
“telling people apart.” It has recently become clear that it is also necessary to understand …

FRVT 2006 and ICE 2006 large-scale experimental results

PJ Phillips, WT Scruggs, AJ O'Toole… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the large-scale experimental results from the Face Recognition Vendor
Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006. The FRVT 2006 looked at …