Catching the bad guy: Morphing composite faces helps

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-207

  Hasel, Lisa E ^a   Wells, Gary L ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite; Eyewitness; Face; Morph; Multiple witnesses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; FACE; HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

CRIME; FACE; HUMANS; PORTRAITS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947253524     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-006-9007-2     Document Type: Article

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