Implementing Holistic Dimensions for a Facial Composite System

Facial composites are pictures of human faces. These are normally constructed by victims and witnesses of crime who describe a suspect's face and then select individual facial features. Unfortunately, research has shown that composites constructed in this way are not often recognised. In contrast, we are quite good at recognizing complete faces, even if the face is unfamiliar and only seen briefly. This more natural way of processing faces is at the heart of a new composite system called EvoFIT. With this computer program, witnesses are presented with sets of complete faces for selection and a composite is `evolved' over time. The current work augments EvoFIT by developing a set of psychologically useful scales

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: JMM2
• Authors: Charlie D. Frowd, Vicki Bruce, Alex H. McIntyre, David Ross, Stephen Fields, Yvonne Plenderleith, Peter J. B. Hancock
• Keywords: Complete Faces, Facial, Individual Facial Features, JMM2 2006