Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A. H., Pitchford, M., Atkins, R., Webster, A., Pollard, J., Hunt, B., Price, E., Morgan, S., Stoika, A., Dughila, R., Maftei, S., & Sendrea, G. (2010, September). Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites. Presented at 2010 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies

Facial composites are traditionally made by witnesses and victims describing and selecting parts of criminals’ faces, but this method is hard to do and has been shown to be generally ineffective. We have been working on an alternative system called E... Read More about Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites.

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.