Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hancock, P. J., McIntyre, A. H., & Kittler, J. (2009, August). Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching. Presented at 2009 Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security

Identity verification by matching face images is a common security task; is this person on a wanted list? With unfamiliar faces, this is surprisingly difficult, with error rates in the region of 30%. With photographic identification increasingly comm... Read More about Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching.

Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample (2009)
Journal Article
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2009). Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(4), 235-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.005

Anecdote and samples from extreme populations suggest military interests and ‘esoteric’ or Gothic interests (collectively referred to as sensational interests) are a predictor of offending. We examined such interests and offending in a large sample o... Read More about Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample.

Evolving the memory of a criminal’s face: methods to search a face space more effectively (2009)
Journal Article
Frowd, C., Bruce, V., Pitchford, M., Gannon, C., Robinson, M., Tredoux, C., Park, J., Mcintyre, A., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2010). Evolving the memory of a criminal’s face: methods to search a face space more effectively. Soft Computing, 14(1), 81-90. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-008-0391-z

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 memory of a criminal’s face: methods to search a face space more effectively.