Research: Expand Facial Biometrics to Include Body Information
There is potentially more information for biometrics-based identity recognition in images of people than the face alone, according to a new study from the journal of Psychological Science by researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas and the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST).
The researchers’ recognition study used three types of images for comparison: a subject’s face and upper body; only the face; and the upper body with the face masked. Results suggest that automatic recognition systems could be improved by adding body information beyond the face.