Researchers from  's (UNSW) and the  's and have measured of 49 Australian -issuing officers and compared it against a of 38 students from UNSW. In the test given to both groups, both had a roughly 20\% error rate. The study "Passport Officers' Errors in Face Matching" was published in this Monday. In the person-to-photo test, 30 officers —with mean age 48.0, 21 of them female— in  Passport Office, during a normal working day, had to compare photograph (presented for up to ten seconds) to the person present. 34 students, 17 of each gender, were recruited as 'applicants' for the identification task. The person-to-photo test could not be given to a control group because it was not possible to bring back the 'applicants' to repeat the test. Match accuracy tested lower with official identification photos than with two-year-old photos taken by researchers; average error was 29.1\%, with volunteers especially inaccurate on the official identification matches. Mismatch average error was 10.6\%. Australian has stated passport photo specifications comply fully with  (ICAO) standards.
Researchers from Australia 's (UNSW) and the United Kingdom 's and have measured of 49 Australian -issuing officers and compared it against a of 38 students from UNSW. In the test given to both groups, both had a roughly 20\% error rate. The study "Passport Officers' Errors in Face Matching" was published in this Monday. In the person-to-photo test, 30 officers —with mean age 48.0, 21 of them female— in Sydney Passport Office, during a normal working day, had to compare photograph (presented for up to ten seconds) to the person present. 34 students, 17 of each gender, were recruited as 'applicants' for the identification task. The person-to-photo test could not be given to a control group because it was not possible to bring back the 'applicants' to repeat the test. Match accuracy tested lower with official identification photos than with two-year-old photos taken by researchers; average error was 29.1\%, with volunteers especially inaccurate on the official identification matches. Mismatch average error was 10.6\%. Australian has stated passport photo specifications comply fully with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards.
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