Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human and automatic recognition.
Matching unfamiliar faces is known to be difficult, and this can give an opportunity to those engaged in identity fraud. Here we examine a relatively new form of fraud, the use of photo-ID containing a graphical morph between two faces. Such a document may look sufficiently like two people to serve...
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| description | Matching unfamiliar faces is known to be difficult, and this can give an opportunity to those engaged in identity fraud. Here we examine a relatively new form of fraud, the use of photo-ID containing a graphical morph between two faces. Such a document may look sufficiently like two people to serve as ID for both. We present two experiments with human viewers, and a third with a smartphone face recognition system. In Experiment 1, viewers were asked to match pairs of faces, without being warned that one of the pair could be a morph. They very commonly accepted a morphed face as a match. However, in Experiment 2, following very short training on morph detection, their acceptance rate fell considerably. Nevertheless, there remained large individual differences in people's ability to detect a morph. In Experiment 3 we show that a smartphone makes errors at a similar rate to 'trained' human viewers-i.e. accepting a small number of morphs as genuine ID. We discuss these results in reference to the use of face photos for security. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c627de98ee74716a8a6a81f7cac8e022022-12-21T23:53:04ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01123e017331910.1371/journal.pone.0173319Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human and automatic recognition.David J RobertsonRobin S S KramerA Mike BurtonMatching unfamiliar faces is known to be difficult, and this can give an opportunity to those engaged in identity fraud. Here we examine a relatively new form of fraud, the use of photo-ID containing a graphical morph between two faces. Such a document may look sufficiently like two people to serve as ID for both. We present two experiments with human viewers, and a third with a smartphone face recognition system. In Experiment 1, viewers were asked to match pairs of faces, without being warned that one of the pair could be a morph. They very commonly accepted a morphed face as a match. However, in Experiment 2, following very short training on morph detection, their acceptance rate fell considerably. Nevertheless, there remained large individual differences in people's ability to detect a morph. In Experiment 3 we show that a smartphone makes errors at a similar rate to 'trained' human viewers-i.e. accepting a small number of morphs as genuine ID. We discuss these results in reference to the use of face photos for security.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5362102?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | David J Robertson Robin S S Kramer A Mike Burton Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human and automatic recognition. PLoS ONE |
| title | Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human and automatic recognition. |
| title_full | Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human and automatic recognition. |
| title_fullStr | Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human and automatic recognition. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human and automatic recognition. |
| title_short | Fraudulent ID using face morphs: Experiments on human and automatic recognition. |
| title_sort | fraudulent id using face morphs experiments on human and automatic recognition |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5362102?pdf=render |
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