An application of caricature: How to improve the recognition of facial composites
Journal Article
Frowd, C., Bruce, V., Ross, D., McIntyre, A., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2007)
An application of caricature: How to improve the recognition of facial composites. Visual Cognition, 15(8), 954-984. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280601058951
Facial caricatures exaggerate the distinctive features of a face and may elevate the recognition of a familiar face. We investigate whether the recognition of facial composite...
Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System
Conference Proceeding
Frowd, C., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A., & Hancock, P. (2006)
Adding Holistic Dimensions to a Facial Composite System. In 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, 2006. FGR 2006doi:10.1109/fgr.2006.20
Facial composites are typically constructed by witnesses to crime by describing a suspect?s face and then selecting facial features from a kit of parts. Unfortunately, when pr...
The relative importance of external and internal features of facial composites
Journal Article
Frowd, C., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A., & Hancock, P. (2007)
The relative importance of external and internal features of facial composites. British Journal of Psychology, 98(1), 61-77. doi:10.1348/000712606x104481
Three experiments are reported that compare the quality of external with internal regions within a set of facial composites using two matching-type tasks. Composites are const...
Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching
Conference Proceeding
Hancock, P. J., McIntyre, A. H., & Kittler, J. (2009)
Caricaturing to Improve Face Matching. In Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security, 2009. BLISS '09https://doi.org/10.1109/bliss.2009.17
Identity verification by matching face images is a common security task; is this person on a wanted list? With unfamiliar faces, this is surprisingly difficult, with error rat...
Predict Your Child: a System to Suggest the Facial Appearance of Children
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Bruce, V., Chang, H. Y., Plenderleith, Y., McIntyre, A. H., & Hancock, P. J. (2008)
Predict Your Child: a System to Suggest the Facial Appearance of Children. Journal of multimedia, 3(1), doi:10.4304/jmm.3.1.28-35
We have developed a novel software program
called ‘Predict Your Child’ that, given photographs of
potential parent faces, generates plausible looking children.
The parent phot...
Saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements trigger equivalent gaze-cued orienting effects
Journal Article
Langton, S. R., McIntyre, A. H., Hancock, P. J., & Leder, H. (2018)
Saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements trigger equivalent gaze-cued orienting effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218.2017.1. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1362703
Research has established that a perceived eye gaze produces a concomitant shift in a viewer’s spatial attention in the direction of that gaze. The two experiments reported her...
The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Pitchford, M., Bruce, V., Jackson, S., Hepton, G., Greenall, M., …Hancock, P. J. B. (2011)
The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(2), 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1662
Face construction by selecting individual facial features rarely produces recognisable images. We have been developing a system called EvoFIT that works by the repeated select...
Developmentally distinct gaze processing systems: Luminance versus geometric cues.
Journal Article
Doherty, M. J., McIntyre, A. H., & Langton, S. R. (2015)
Developmentally distinct gaze processing systems: Luminance versus geometric cues. Cognition, 137, 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.01.001
Two experiments examined how the different cues to gaze direction contribute to children’s abilities to follow and make explicit judgements about gaze. In each study participa...
Effecting an improvement to the fitness function. How to evolve a more identifiable face.
Conference Proceeding
Frowd, C., Park, J., McIntyre, A., Bruce, V., Pitchford, M., Fields, S., …Hancock, P. J. (2008)
Effecting an improvement to the fitness function. How to evolve a more identifiable face. In ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security, 2008. BLISS '08doi:10.1109/bliss.2008.28
Constructing the face of a criminal from the selection of individual facial parts is a hard task. We have been working on a new system called EvoFIT that involves the selectio...
Implementing Holistic Dimensions for a Facial Composite System
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Bruce, V., McIntyre, A. H., Ross, D., Fields, S., Plenderleith, Y., & Hancock, P. J. (2006)
Implementing Holistic Dimensions for a Facial Composite System. Journal of multimedia, 1(3), doi:10.4304/jmm.1.3.42-51
Facial composites are pictures of human faces.
These are normally constructed by victims and witnesses of
crime who describe a suspect’s face and then select
individual facial...