Davis, Josh P. ORCID: 0000-0003-0017-7159, Valentine, Tim, Thorner, Kate, Gibson, Stuart and Solomon, Chris (2009) Morphing facial composites constructed by different witnesses improves the internal facial configurations to enhance recognition. In: DFP Annual Conference 2009 (British Psychological Society - Division of Forensic Psychology Conference), 23-25 Jun 2009, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Witnesses, unfamiliar with the suspect may be invited to produce a facial composite from memory. Experiments are reported in which composites were constructed using software relying on an evolutionary algorithm. Morphed composite images produced by 4 different witnesses (between-witness morphs) were named by participants familiar with those depicted more often than morphs produced by merging 4 images produced by the same witness (within-witness morphs), although both were better recognised than the original un-manipulated composites. It was subsequently found that the advantage for morphs was due to improvements in the internal configurations of the facial features.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	facial composites EFIT-V, EFIT, face recognition, eyewitness identification
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Health & Social Care School of Health & Social Care > Applied Psychology Research Group
Related URLs:	Organisation
Last Modified:	14 Oct 2016 09:13
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/5203

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