Facial composite Construction

Question 1

Facial composite system

Answer 1

Tool for creating a likeness to a suspects face based on an eyewitness’ description

Question 2

Feature based systems

Answer 2

Likeness to suspect constructed by piecing together individual facial features
Limitation - Psychological studies show we recognise faces holistically not as a sum of individual facial features.

Question 3

Features vs Whole

Answer 3

Recognition on blurry pictures/faces is possible even is details aren’t seen

Question 4

EFIT-V

Answer 4

a holistic composite system – used by the majority of UK police and in many other countries. Based on whole face recognition not feature recall

Question 5

Painting faces by numbers

Answer 5

Facial appearance encoded by numbers.
Iterative search for suspect’s face using an evolutionary algorithm.

Question 6

Face-Space search

Answer 6

Alternatively, can consider the problem of creating a likeness to the suspect as a multi-dimensional search problem.