Examining the examiners: an online eyebrow verification experiment inspired by FISWG

Christopher Gerard Zeinstra; Raymond N.J. Veldhuis; Lieuwe Jan Spreeuwers

doi:10.1109/IWBF.2015.7110222

Examining the examiners: an online eyebrow verification experiment inspired by FISWG

Christopher Gerard Zeinstra, Raymond N.J. Veldhuis, Lieuwe Jan Spreeuwers

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Abstract

In forensic face comparison, one of the features taken into account are the eyebrows. In this paper, we investigate human performance on an eyebrow verification task. This task is executed twice by participants: a "best-effort" approach and an approach using features based on forensic knowledge. The group of participants is divided into forensic/biometric experts and non-experts. The rationale behind this experiment is to determine whether there exist differences between (a) experts and non-experts and (b) the "best-effort" and forensic approach. It is shown empirically on a special constructed dataset that there do not exist major differences between experts and non-experts, however non-experts do perform worse when using the forensic approach instead of the "best-effort" approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2015
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-8105-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IWBF.2015.7110222
Publication status	Published - 3 Mar 2015
Event	3rd International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2015 - Gjovik, Norway, Gjøvik, Norway Duration: 3 Mar 2015 → 4 Mar 2015 Conference number: 3

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Conference	3rd International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2015
Abbreviated title	IWBF 2015
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Gjøvik
Period	3/03/15 → 4/03/15
Other	3-4 March, 2015

Keywords

SCS-Safety
FISWG
Eyebrows
Human verification performance

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Examining the examiners: an online eyebrow verification experiment inspired by FISWG. / Zeinstra, Christopher Gerard ; Veldhuis, Raymond N.J.; Spreeuwers, Lieuwe Jan.
International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, IWBF 2015. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, 2015. p. 1-6.

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