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Dragana Calic

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dragana.calic@adelaide.edu.au

Area of Research

Face recognition
Human face matching expertise
Comparing human and automated face recognition performance
Applied Cognitive Psychology

Awards

DSTO/Faculty of Health Sciences Divisional Scholarship (2007-2011)
Commercialisation Training Scheme Scholarship (2008-2010)
DSTO Summer Vacation Scholarship (2004/05)

Psychology Research Interests

My PhD research aims to provide a thorough evaluation of human one-to-one face matching performance (i.e., identity verification). Being of applied nature this work focuses on a set of distinct factors which can affect human performance in operational settings. These factors include human training/experience; assessments of individual differences which may serve to predict performance; different types and percentages of impostor/fake stimuli; and, experimental (laboratory) versus live (real world) presentation of stimuli. Additionally, motivated by operational implementation of various automated face recognition (FR) systems, this work also conducts a comparative evolution of human performance with an automated FR system, which has been operationally implemented.

Publications

Calic, D., McLindin, B., & MacLeod, V. (2010). Facial Recognition: The Ability of Humans and Algorithms to Detect Impostors. Presentation at the 20th International Symposium on the Forensic Sciences of the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society (ANZFSS), 5-9 September 2010, Sydney.

Calic, D., MacLeod, V. & McLindin, B., Dunn, J. (2010). Face Recognition: The Ability of Trained and Untrained Humans to Detect Impostors. Presentation at the 37th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC), 8-10 April 2010, University of Melbourne.

Calic, D. and McLindin. B. (2009). Human and Automated Facial Recognition Performance: A Preliminary Assessment. Poster presentation at the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 30 July-1 August 2009. Amsterdam.

Calic, D., McLindin, B. and. MacLeod, V. (2009). Methodology for the Comparative Assessment of Trained and Untrained Human Operators with Automated Facial Recognition Systems. Poster and presentation at the 10th Biometrics Institute Annual Conference. 27-28 May 2009, Sydney.