Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
Cogn Res Princ Implic. 2022 Mar 28;7(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s41235-022-00369-7.
Research has consistently shown that concealing facial features can hinder subsequent identification. The widespread adoption of face masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical and urgent need to discover techniques to improve identification of people wearing face coverings. Despite years of research on face recognition and eyewitness identifications, there are currently no evidence-based recommendations for lineup construction for cases involving masked individuals. The purpose of this study was to examine identification accuracy of a masked perpetrator as a function of lineup type (i.e., unmasked or masked lineups) and perpetrator presence (i.e., absent or present). In both experiments, discriminability was superior for masked lineups, a result that was due almost exclusively to higher hits rates in target-present conditions. These data suggest that presenting a masked lineup can enhance identification of masked faces, and they have important implications for both eyewitness identification and everyday face recognition of people with face coverings.
研究一直表明，隐藏面部特征会阻碍后续的识别。由于 COVID-19 大流行而广泛采用的口罩突出了发现技术的关键和迫切需求，以提高对戴口罩人员的识别能力。尽管对面部识别和目击者识别进行了多年的研究，但目前针对涉及戴口罩人员的案件，没有基于证据的阵容构建建议。本研究的目的是检查作为阵容类型（即未蒙面或蒙面阵容）和犯罪者存在（即缺席或在场）函数的蒙面犯罪者的识别准确性。在两个实验中，蒙面阵容的辨别力都更好，这一结果几乎完全是由于目标存在条件下的更高命中率所致。这些数据表明，呈现蒙面阵容可以增强对蒙面面孔的识别，这对目击者识别和对戴口罩人员的日常面部识别都具有重要意义。
