Charlie D Frowd
Familiarity effects in the construction of facial composite images using modern software systems.
Frowd, Charlie D; Skelton, Faye C; Butt, Neelam; Hassan, Amal; Fields, Stephen; Hancock, Peter J B
Authors
Dr Faye Skelton F.Skelton@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
Neelam Butt
Amal Hassan
Stephen Fields
Peter J B Hancock
Abstract
We investigate the effect of target familiarity on the construction of facial composites, as used by law-enforcement to locate criminal suspects. Two popular software construction methods were investigated. Participants were shown a target face that was either familiar or unfamiliar to them and constructed a composite of it from memory using a typical ‘feature’ system, involving selection of individual facial-features, or one of the newer ‘holistic’ types, involving repeated selection and breeding from arrays of whole faces. The study found that composites constructed of a familiar face were named more successfully than composites of an unfamiliar face; also, naming of composites of internal and external features were equivalent for unfamiliar targets, but internal features were better named than external features for familiar targets. These findings applied to both systems, although benefit emerged for the holistic type due to more accurate construction of internal features and evidence for a whole-face advantage.
Citation
Frowd, C. D., Skelton, F. C., Butt, N., Hassan, A., Fields, S., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2011). Familiarity effects in the construction of facial composite images using modern software systems. Ergonomics, 54, 1147-1158. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2011.623328
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | 2011 |
Deposit Date | Jun 10, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 10, 2015 |
Print ISSN | 0014-0139 |
Electronic ISSN | 1366-5847 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 54 |
Pages | 1147-1158 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2011.623328 |
Keywords | Facial composite; eyewitness; evolutionary algorithms; facial feature; memory |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8532 |
Publisher URL | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00140139.2011.623328#.VW7g5dJVhHw |
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