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An application of caricature: How to improve the recognition of facial composites (2007)
Journal Article
Frowd, C., Bruce, V., Ross, D., McIntyre, A., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2007). An application of caricature: How to improve the recognition of facial composites. Visual Cognition, 15(8), 954-984. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280601058951

Facial caricatures exaggerate the distinctive features of a face and may elevate the recognition of a familiar face. We investigate whether the recognition of facial composites, or pictures of criminal faces, could be similarly enhanced. In this stud... Read More about An application of caricature: How to improve the recognition of facial composites.

Evolving the face of a criminal: How to search a face space more effectively. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frowd, C. D., Bruce, V., Gannon, C., Robinson, M., Tredoux, C., Park, J., Mcintyre, A., & Hancock, P. J. (2007, August). Evolving the face of a criminal: How to search a face space more effectively. Presented at 2007 ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS 2007)

Witnesses and victims of serious crime are often required to construct a facial composite, a visual likeness of a suspect's face. The traditional method is for them to select individual facial features to build a face, but often these images are of p... Read More about Evolving the face of a criminal: How to search a face space more effectively..

The relative importance of external and internal features of facial composites (2007)
Journal Article
Frowd, C., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A., & Hancock, P. (2007). The relative importance of external and internal features of facial composites. British Journal of Psychology, 98(1), 61-77. https://doi.org/10.1348/000712606x104481

Three experiments are reported that compare the quality of external with internal regions within a set of facial composites using two matching-type tasks. Composites are constructed with the aim of triggering recognition from people familiar with the... Read More about The relative importance of external and internal features of facial composites.