Forensic Face Matching

Photo-ID is often used to confirm an individual’s identity – think about presenting your passport before boarding a plane. But how do we decide whether the photo in a passport shows the same person that’s using it to travel?

We are interested in factors that affect how well people perform these face matching tasks.

You can find our latest paper about factors affecting face matching here.

How do face masks affect identification?

With the rapid increase to the number of people wearing face masks in public, we have started to investigate how they affect our ability to recognise other people.

You can find our first paper about identifying masked faces here.

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