Details on passport photos that criminals want to check-in must be wary

Having to keep the "cool side" when taking passport photos will probably be the past if this is passed.

The latest study by experts at York University has shown that airport controllers have a lot of trouble having to compare thousands of passengers' faces and passport photos every day.

And criminals take advantage of this to bypass the eye of an inspector, passing through a tight security gate to board the plane.

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For the purpose of increasing accuracy when confronting portraits in passport with real people.

The research team had the help of 40 volunteers when they had to identify 60 pairs of passport photos with two different emotions - a "cold" face portrait and a smiling photo.

The results were surprising when the accuracy rate increased to 9% if we compared a person with a portrait when they were smiling. At the same time, for those with quite similar profiles, this improvement figure is 7%.

Psychologist and lead researcher - Mila Mileva said: " Our research recommends that passport photos should be portraits of the owner when they are smiling. This may be Help us identify the exact identity of their personalities ".

"In addition, we also found that smiles can help identify better people with similar faces if only looking at images".

Passport photos should leave the portrait of the owner when they are smiling.

Mila Mileva also added: " Face recognition errors are always a difficult problem for the controllers at the airport in general. Therefore, we will do more research to find out more. more solution ".

The first study was published in the British Journal of Psychology.