Bindemann Markus, Sandford Adam
School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NP, UK.
Perception. 2011;40(5):625-7. doi: 10.1068/p7008.
In all contemporary societies, photo-identity documents are used routinely for person identification, but this process is surprisingly fallible. Here we show that this problem is not limited to the identification of specific photographs of a person, but transcends three identity cards of the same person with different images. These identity cards varied substantially from each other in how well they could be recognised but identification rates were generally poor. We also present a potential solution to this problem by demonstrating that person identification can be improved when several photographs of the same person are made available.
在所有当代社会中，带照片的身份文件通常用于个人身份识别，但这个过程却出人意料地容易出错。我们在此表明，这个问题不仅限于识别一个人的特定照片，还涉及同一个人的三张带有不同图像的身份证。这些身份证在可识别程度上彼此差异很大，但总体识别率很低。我们还通过证明当提供同一个人的多张照片时可以提高个人身份识别，提出了这个问题的一个潜在解决方案。
