An application of caricature: How to improve the recognition of facial composites

Visual Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 954-984

  Frowd, Charlie ^a   Bruce, Vicki ^b   Ross, David ^c   McIntyre, Alex ^c   Hancock, Peter B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 35548971915     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280601058951     Document Type: Article

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