SYDNEY / LONDON (IT BOLTWISE) – New research shows why so-called super-recognizers can identify faces so exceptionally well. These people play an important role in solving crimes and identifying perpetrators. The study uses artificial intelligence to analyze the unique abilities of these people.
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Super-recognizers are people with an exceptional ability to recognize and identify faces. This ability has made them valuable resources in law enforcement, particularly in identifying perpetrators in complex cases such as the Salisbury-Novichok incident. A new study has now gained deeper insight into the mechanisms behind this ability, using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze the visual information that super-recognizers perceive.
Previous research suggested that super-recognizers look at more areas of a face than average people. The current study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, used eye-tracking data from 37 super-recognizers and 68 typical recognizers. The researchers reconstructed the actual visual information perceived by participants’ eyes and fed it into deep neural networks (DNNs) to simulate facial recognition.
The results showed that the performance of the AI system increased significantly when the facial areas viewed by super-recognizers were visualized. This suggests that facial recognition ability depends not only on the amount of information viewed, but also on the quality of the areas selected. Super-recognizers appear to specifically select regions that contain more identity features, improving their recognition ability.
Dr. James Dunn from UNSW Sydney, the study’s lead author, explained that the differences in facial recognition are partly due to how we actively explore and select visual information. These findings raise the question of whether such skills can be trained, although previous studies suggest that super-recognition is genetic and heritable. Researchers have developed a free test to identify super-recognizers, which is available on the UNSW website.
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