Face averages enhance user recognition for smartphone security.

Our recognition of familiar faces is excellent, and generalises across viewing conditions. However, unfamiliar face recognition is much poorer. For this reason, automatic face recognition systems might benefit from incorporating the advantages of familiarity. Here we put this to the test using the f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David J Robertson, Robin S S Kramer, A Mike Burton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4373928?pdf=render