Wrongful Arrest - Super Recogniser Can Prevent Such

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It has been widely reported that an Asian man was misidentified by as a burglar and arrested after an investigating officer, who had not been assessed on his face matching ability, verified the identification.

The below article rightfully asks - why are law enforcement agencies not using their human Super Recognisers to verify computer identifications? These officers and staff can be identified and trained to use their natural skill. Why risk arresting the wrong person, damaging community relations and paying out for costly court settlements?? The SRs can also be used in all manner of other proactive roles where spotting someone is essential.

https://www.reliresearch.co.uk/blog/misidentificaion-amp-facial-recognition-technology

Royal Society - Super Recognisers Better at Spotting AI Faces

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Research by Honorary Fellow of the Association, Prof. Josh Davis, and published by the world-renown scientific body, the Royal Society, has found that Super Recognisers can be trained to be better at spotting AI generated or “fake” faces. This will be vital in the future fight against crime and terrorism. For full details see:

Training human super-recognizers’ detection and discrimination of AI-generated faces | Royal Society Open Science | The Royal Society

New Australian Super Recogniser Research

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New research from the University of New South Wales in Sydney reveals that super recognisers do not see more of a face. Instead, their eyes automatically target the most informative features. Full details below:

Super recognizers see faces by looking smarter not harder, study finds - The Brighter Side of News

Super Recogniser Makes 3000 Idents!

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Well done to Police Community Support Officer Andy Pope of the West Midlands Police in UK for making 3000 identifications from CCTV and other images. Andy has been honoured by our chairman, Lord Lingfield, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Super Recognisers.

Our super recogniser targets next milestone | West Midlands Police

Super-Recognisers can Detect AI-hyperrealism - Australian Research

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Research by academics in Australia and Scotland, including Dr David White of the University of New South Wales, a well known expert on Super Recognisers noted the following:

The AI revolution has produced synthetic faces that often appear more human than real photos of people. We tested whether individual differences in face recognition abilities explain variation in discriminating AI from human faces. Super-recognisers—people with exceptional ability to recognise human faces (N = 36)—outperformed a standard participant group by 15 percent, and by 7 percent compared to motivated controls (Cohen’s d = 0.55; N = 89).

The full article can be found here:

OSF | Super-Recognisers can Detect AI-hyperrealism