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The Kent Face Matching Test
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This study presents the Kent Face Matching Test ( KFMT ), which comprises 200 same‐identity and 20 different‐identity pairs of unfamiliar faces. Each face pair consists of a photograph from a student ID card and a high‐quality portrait that was taken at least three months later. The test is designed to complement existing resources for face‐matching research, by providing a more ecologically valid stimulus set that captures the natural variability that can arise in a person's appearance over time. Two experiments are presented to demonstrate that the KFMT provides a challenging measure of face matching but correlates with established tests. Experiment 1 compares a short version of this test with the optimized Glasgow Face Matching Test ( GFMT ). In Experiment 2, a longer version of the KFMT , with infrequent identity mismatches, is correlated with performance on the Cambridge Face Memory Test ( CFMT ) and the Cambridge Face Perception Test ( CFPT ). The KFMT is freely available for use in face‐matching research.
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Facial comparison accuracy and data quality are directly correlated.
“Facial comparison accuracy and data quality are, thus, directly correlated [95,96], especially in terms of individual accuracy variation across multiple analysts [97] and individual analyst ability overestimation [98].”
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The Accuracy section (page unavailable) reports 80% accuracy on the GFMT’s optimised images versus 66% on the more variable KFMT images. The General Discussion attributes the KFMT’s greater difficulty to variability in its face photographs. This supports an association between image conditions and accuracy, but the paper does not establish a direct correlation between data quality and accuracy. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Fysh, M. C., & Bindemann, M.
- Affiliations
- School of Psychology University of Kent Canterbury UK
- ORCID
- Fysh, Matthew C.
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- British Journal of Psychology
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- Wiley
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- 2017-09-05
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- 109
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- 2
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- 219-231
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- 0007-1269
- 2044-8295
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