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Configural and featural information in facial-composite images (2013)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Jones, S., Fodarella, C., Skelton, F. C., Fields, S., Williams, A., …Hancock, P. J. (2014). Configural and featural information in facial-composite images. Science & Justice, 54(3), 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2013.11.001

Eyewitnesses are often invited to construct a facial composite, an image created of the person they saw commit a crime that is used by law enforcement to locate criminal suspects. In the current paper, the effectiveness of composite images was inves... Read More about Configural and featural information in facial-composite images.

The Impact Of Morphing On Own- And Other-race Facial Composites (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., Frowd, C., & Walkden, S. (2013, September). The Impact Of Morphing On Own- And Other-race Facial Composites. Paper presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section annual conference, University of Reading

The Importance Of Context For Facial Composite Images (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., & Frowd, C. (2013, January). The Importance Of Context For Facial Composite Images. Paper presented at Identifying the Suspect: Improving Facial Composites, University of Leeds

Whole-face procedures for recovering facial images from memory. (2013)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Skelton, F. C., Hepton, G., Holden, L., Minahil, S., Pitchford, M., …Hancock, P. J. B. (2013). Whole-face procedures for recovering facial images from memory. Science & Justice, 53, 89-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2012.12.004

Research has indicated that traditional methods for accessing facial memories usually yield unidentifiable images. Recent research, however, has made important improvements in this area to the witness interview, method used for constructing the face... Read More about Whole-face procedures for recovering facial images from memory..

Understanding the multiframe caricature advantage for recognizing facial composites. (2012)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Skelton, F. C., Atherton, C., Pitchford, M., Bruce, V., Atkins, R., …Hancock, P. J. B. (2012). Understanding the multiframe caricature advantage for recognizing facial composites. Visual Cognition, 20, 1215-1241. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2012.743936

Eyewitnesses often construct a ‘composite’ face of a person they saw commit a crime, a picture that police use to identify suspects. We described a technique (Frowd et al., 2007, Visual Cognition, 15, 1-31) based on facial caricature to facilitate r... Read More about Understanding the multiframe caricature advantage for recognizing facial composites..

Interviewing techniques for Darwinian facial-composite systems. (2012)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Nelson, L., Skelton, F. C., Noyce, R., Atkins, R., Heard, P., …Hancock, P. J. B. (2012). Interviewing techniques for Darwinian facial-composite systems. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26, 576-584. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.2829

Eyewitnesses are often asked to describe the appearance of an offender’s face, normally as part of a cognitive interview (CI), and then to construct a facial composite of it by selecting hair, eyes, nose, etc. Recent research indicates that facial c... Read More about Interviewing techniques for Darwinian facial-composite systems..

Catching even more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frowd, C. D., Pitchford, M., Petkovic, A., Skelton, F. C., Prosser, C., & Coates, B. (2012, September). Catching even more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites. Presented at 2012 Third International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies, Lisbon,

Facial composites are an investigative tool used by police to identify suspects of crime. Unfortunately, traditional methods to construct the face have rather low success rates. We have been developing a new recognition-based method called EvoFIT tha... Read More about Catching even more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites.

Lost in Space: Optimising search space in EvoFIT (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., Frowd, C., & Greenwood, L. (2012, August). Lost in Space: Optimising search space in EvoFIT. Paper presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section annual conference, University of Glasgow

Recovering faces from memory: the distracting influence of external facial features. (2012)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Skelton, F. C., Atherton, C., Pitchford, M., Hepton, G., Holden, L., …Hancock, P. J. B. (2012). Recovering faces from memory: the distracting influence of external facial features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 18, 224-238. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027393

Recognition memory for unfamiliar faces is facilitated when contextual cues (e.g. head pose, background environment, hair and clothing) are consistent between study and test. By contrast, inconsistencies in external features, especially hair, promot... Read More about Recovering faces from memory: the distracting influence of external facial features..

Evolving an identifiable face of a criminal (2012)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Skelton, F. C., Atherton, C., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2012). Evolving an identifiable face of a criminal. The psychologist, 25, 116-119

Witness Interviews: Does recall of relational information improve identifiability of a facial composite? (2011)
Journal Article
Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., & Andrews, S. (2011). Witness Interviews: Does recall of relational information improve identifiability of a facial composite?. International Journal of Security and Its Applications, 5, 37-48

Facial composites are used by Police to generate lines of enquiry; unfortunately composites made by traditional ‘feature’ systems are not often accurately named. One reason could be that these systems tend to rely on descriptions of the criminal’s fa... Read More about Witness Interviews: Does recall of relational information improve identifiability of a facial composite?.

Catching more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites: Lab research and Police field trials. (2011)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J. B., Bruce, V., Skelton, F. C., Atherton, C., Nelson, L., …Sendrea, G. (2011). Catching more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites: Lab research and Police field trials. Global Journal of Human Social Science, 11(3), 34-46

Often, the only evidence of an offender’s identity comes from the memory of an eyewitness. For over 12 years, we have been developing software called EvoFIT to help eyewitnesses recover their memories of offenders’ faces, to assist police investigati... Read More about Catching more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites: Lab research and Police field trials..

Familiarity effects in the construction of facial composite images using modern software systems. (2011)
Journal Article
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

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 tha... Read More about Familiarity effects in the construction of facial composite images using modern software systems..

EvoFIT: Police Software For Constructing Facial Composites (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., & Frowd, C. (2010, September). EvoFIT: Police Software For Constructing Facial Composites. Poster presented at Police Learning: A Changing World, University of Central Lancashire

Improving the quality of police facial composite images (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Skelton, F., Frowd, C., & Speers, K. Improving the quality of police facial composite images. [Poster]. Exhibited at SET for Britain, House of Commons. 9 September 2009 - 9 September 2009. (Unpublished)

The Role of Context in the Construction of Police Facial Composites (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., Frowd, C., & Speers, K. (2009, September). The Role of Context in the Construction of Police Facial Composites. Poster presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section conference, University of Hertfordshire

Improving the Quality of Police Facial Composites (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., Frowd, C., & Speers, K. (2009, March). Improving the Quality of Police Facial Composites. Poster presented at SET for Britain, London, UK

I was invited to present this research, shortlisted from over 600 applications. SET for Britain recognises excellence in Early Career Researchers.

An internal feature advantage in face recognition? (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., & Ainscow, K. (2008, September). An internal feature advantage in face recognition?. Poster presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section annual conference, University of Southampton