Interactive Use of Images Improve Super Recogniser Performance

This article shows that the ability to view images from different angles improves identification. This is especially applicable to Super Recognisers.

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This was taken from this academic article:

Smith, H. M. J., Andrews, S., Baguley, T., Colloff, M. F., Davis, J. P., White, D., Rockey, J. C., & Flowe, H. D. (2021). Performance of typical and superior face recognisers on a novel interactive face matching procedure. British Journal of Psychology, DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12499 (https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjop.12499)

The conclusion from the academic paper:

In this paper, we tested typical and superior recognizers using a novel interactive face matching procedure. In contrast to standard (i.e., static frontal) one-to-one face matching tasks, the procedure provides fluid orientation information, and the opportunity to interact with the comparison facial image by manoeuvring it into different orientations. This easy-to-implement procedure has a range of applied benefits: It optimizes the performance of both typical and superior recognizers, and has the potential to highlight both similarities and differences between facial images. The results support the hypothesis that typical and superior face recognizers process faces in qualitatively similar ways: Reliance on pictorial encoding when viewing static images helps to explain the benefit of the interactive procedure.