Face masks present a new challenge to face identification (here matching) and emotion recognition in Western cultures. Here, we present the results of three experiments that test the effect of masks, and also the effect of sunglasses (an occlusion that individuals tend to have more experienced with) on (i) familiar face matching, (ii) unfamiliar face matching and (iii) emotion categorization. Occlusion reduced accuracy in all three tasks, with most errors in the mask condition; however, there was little difference in performance for faces in masks compared with faces in sunglasses. Super-recognizers, people who are highly skilled at matching unconcealed faces, were impaired by occlusion, but at the group level, performed with higher accuracy than controls on all tasks. Results inform psychology theory with implications for everyday interactions, security and policing in a mask-wearing society.

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This paper considers the challenging task of realtime extended object tracking using cluttered measurements from laser range scanners. The performance of the recently proposed Box Particle Filter (Box PF) algorithm is evaluated utilising real measurements from laser range scanners obtained within a prototype security system replicating an airport corridor.The problem is expressed as the joint estimation of both state and parameters of an extended target. Circularly and elliptically shaped targets are considered. Promising results are presented.

Extended objects generate multiple measurements and are characterised with their size or volume. They require methods able to deal with the data association problem and at the same time to estimate both their kinematic states and shape parameters. This paper presents a solution to the extended object tracking for rectangular extended objects, with the Box Particle filter (Box PF) approach. The Box PF is implemented based on dynamically calculated constraints. Promising results are demonstrated.