Convolutional neural net face recognition works in non-human-like ways

Royal Society Open Science
Peter J B HancockViktoria R Mileva

Abstract

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) give the state-of-the-art performance in many pattern recognition problems but can be fooled by carefully crafted patterns of noise. We report that CNN face recognition systems also make surprising 'errors'. We tested six commercial face recognition CNNs and found that they outperform typical human participants on standard face-matching tasks. However, they also declare matches that humans would not, where one image from the pair has been transformed to appear a different sex or race. This is not due to poor performance; the best CNNs perform almost perfectly on the human face-matching tasks, but also declare the most matches for faces of a different apparent race or sex. Although differing on the salience of sex and race, humans and computer systems are not working in completely different ways. They tend to find the same pairs of images difficult, suggesting some agreement about the underlying similarity space.

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Nov 20, 2020·Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications·Daniel J Carragher, Peter J B Hancock

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FaceX
Psychomorph
Amazon
FaceSoft
Face
Matlab
Kairos
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