title: Face recognition is robust with incongruent image resolution: relationship to security video images.
abstract: Identifying a criminal captured on conventional security video typically requires matching poor-quality video footage against a high-quality photograph. The authors examined the consequence of such a large discrepancy in image quality. Recognition and matching performance of this incongruent-quality condition was compared with that of a congruent one, in which a high-quality photograph was reduced to a low-quality video. Recognition memory was little affected by this manipulation, whereas matching performance of the incongruent condition enjoyed occasional advantage. The results show that person identification can tolerate a large discrepancy between image qualities of matching stimuli when one of the images is of poor quality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. c.h.liu@hull.ac.uk
authors.forename: Chang Hong
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Helge
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Seetzen
authors.forename: A Mike
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Burton
authors.forename: Avi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chaudhuri
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012637:Security Measures; D014743:Videotape Recording