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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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.