All Outputs (24)

Evolving the face of a criminal: How to search a face space more effectively. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Frowd, C. D., Bruce, V., Gannon, C., Robinson, M., Tredoux, C., Park, J., …Hancock, P. J. (2007). Evolving the face of a criminal: How to search a face space more effectively. In ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security, 2007. BLISS 2007doi:10.1109/bliss.2007.28

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. doi: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.

Implementing Holistic Dimensions for a Facial Composite System (2006)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A. H., Ross, D., Fields, S., Plenderleith, Y., & Hancock, P. J. (2006). Implementing Holistic Dimensions for a Facial Composite System. Journal of multimedia, 1(3), doi:10.4304/jmm.1.3.42-51

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 constructe... Read More about Implementing Holistic Dimensions for a Facial Composite System.

Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Frowd, C., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A., & Hancock, P. (2006). Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System. In 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2006. FGR 2006doi:10.1109/fgr.2006.20

Facial composites are typically constructed by witnesses to crime by describing a suspect?s face and then selecting facial features from a kit of parts. Unfortunately, when produced in this way, composites are very poorly identified. In contrast, the... Read More about Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System.