Media & Public engagement
My 2018 BJP paper titled “Smiles in face matching: Idiosyncratic information revealed through a smile improves unfamiliar face matching performance” finds higher recognition accuracy when matching two smiling images of the same person or two different people compared to two neutral images. You can find some media coverage of these findings below:
The Independent (2018) Smiling in passport photos could help prevent identity fraud, study suggests
Daily Express (2018) Passports news: Smiling in your photograph could prevent your identity being stolen
Business Standard (2018) This is how toothy smiles in photos can prevent identity fraud
iNews (2018) Why a smiling passport picture would be easier to identify
Yorkshire Post (2018) Smiling passport photos could help keep identity fraudsters at bay, says report
DMV (2018) Science: Passport Smiles Deter Identity Fraud