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

Super Recognisers Spread to Austria

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Use of Police Super Recognisers Continue to Spread!

The Austrian Police are now using the natural talents of their officers in the State of Vorarlberg to spot offenders. Why isn't your department??

From the article: "'Super-recognizers' have natural abilities that cannot be trained," said the Director General for Public Security, Franz Ruf, during a background discussion on Wednesday at the Ministry of the Interior. "Even if faces have changed over time due to the aging process, even if there are difficult conditions such as in the case of a large crowd that is still moving, and if faces are only seen for a short time," Ruf said, hits could be scored."

https://noe.orf.at/stories/3324998/

Research - Super Recognisers better at detecting AI generated faces

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The academic study notes, "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..."

Criminals and terrorists will utilise AI faces to commit fraud, breach international borders and further their aims. Using human Super Recogniser skills gives law enforcement and counter-terrorism units opportunities to defeat these tactics.

Super-Recognisers can Detect AI-hyperrealism | Sciety Labs (Experimental)

German Super Recogniser Captures Thief

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This month, a German police Super Recogniser spotted a thief whose image had been captured by CCTV in the main railway station. The pickpocket, who had stolen an I-phone in December 2024, thought he had escaped detection, but his face had been remembered by an officer deployed on the S-Bahn.

BPOL-HH: Super recogniser of the Federal Police recognizes suspect after a crime in the ... | Press portal