Familiarity effects in the construction of facial-composite images using modern software systems

Ergonomics

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1147-1158

  Frowd, Charlie D ^a   Skelton, Faye C ^a   Butt, Neelam ^a   Hassan, Amal ^a   Fields, Stephen ^b   Hancock, Peter J B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Psychology   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithms; Eyewitness; Facial composite; Facial feature; Memory

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL FEATURES; EYEWITNESS; FACIAL COMPOSITE; FACIAL FEATURE; INTERNAL FEATURES; MEMORY; SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE DESIGNERS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER CRIME; CRIME; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRIME; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRIME; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOFTWARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855566286     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2011.623328     Document Type: Article

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