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The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand (2010)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Pitchford, M., Bruce, V., Jackson, S., Hepton, G., Greenall, M., McIntyre, A. H., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2011). The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(2), 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1662

Face construction by selecting individual facial features rarely produces recognisable images. We have been developing a system called EvoFIT that works by the repeated selection and breeding of complete faces. Here, we explored two techniques. The f... Read More about The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand.

Predict Your Child: a System to Suggest the Facial Appearance of Children (2008)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Bruce, V., Chang, H. Y., Plenderleith, Y., McIntyre, A. H., & Hancock, P. J. (2008). Predict Your Child: a System to Suggest the Facial Appearance of Children. Journal of multimedia, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.4304/jmm.3.1.28-35

We have developed a novel software program
called ‘Predict Your Child’ that, given photographs of
potential parent faces, generates plausible looking children.
The parent photographs are imported into a PCA-based
model of facial appearance to giv... Read More about Predict Your Child: a System to Suggest the Facial Appearance of Children.

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), https://doi.org/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.