Forensic facial comparison: current status, limitations, and future directions

N Bacci, JG Davimes, M Steyn, N Briers - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Facial identification is an emerging field in forensic anthropology, largely
due to the rise in closed circuit television presence worldwide, yet there is little published …

Multiple-image arrays in face matching tasks with and without memory

KL Ritchie, RSS Kramer, M Mileva, A Sandford… - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Previous research has shown that exposure to within-person variability facilitates face
learning. A different body of work has examined potential benefits of providing multiple …

Face processing in police service: the relationship between laboratory-based assessment of face processing abilities and performance in a real-world identity …

MM Thielgen, S Schade, C Bosé - Cognitive research: principles and …, 2021 - Springer
In the present study, we investigated whether police officers' performance in searching for
unfamiliar faces in a video-based real-world task is predicted by laboratory-based face …

Towards large-scale, automated, accurate detection of CCTV camera objects using computer vision. Applications and implications for privacy, safety, and …

H Turtiainen, A Costin, T Lahtinen, L Sintonen… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
In order to withstand the ever-increasing invasion of privacy by CCTV cameras and
technologies, on par CCTV-aware solutions must exist that provide privacy, safety, and …

Searching for faces in crowd chokepoint videos

RSS Kramer, SC Hardy… - Applied Cognitive …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Investigations of face identification have typically focussed on matching faces to
photographic IDs. Few researchers have considered the task of searching for a face in a …

Performance of forensic facial comparison by morphological analysis across optimal and suboptimal CCTV settings

N Bacci, M Steyn, N Briers - Science & Justice, 2021 - Elsevier
Facial comparison is an important yet understudied discipline in forensics. The
recommended method for facial comparison in a forensic setting involves morphological …

Does incident severity influence surveillance by lifeguards in aquatic scenes?

LK Lanagan‐Leitzel - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Do lifeguards monitor events according to the level of danger they pose to the patron? This
study examined this question by displaying 40 min of video of natural swimming activity to …

Prioritising quality: investigating the influence of image quality on forensic facial comparison

N Bacci, N Briers, M Steyn - International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Morphological analysis in forensic facial comparison was recently validated for judicial use.
However, no image quality assurance systems exist for this purpose, despite image triage …

Target-rate effect in continuous visual search

LKH Chan, WWL Chan - Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2022 - Springer
From infrared body temperature surveillance to lifeguarding, real-life visual search is usually
continuous and comes with rare targets. Previous research has examined realistic search …

Region-based trajectory analysis for abnormal behaviour detection: a trial study for suicide detection and prevention

X Li, RA de Belen, A Sowmya, S Onie… - … Conference on Pattern …, 2022 - Springer
We propose a region-based trajectory analysis method to detect abnormal activities in a
scene. It provides a self-adapted, location-sensitive and interpretable trajectory analysis …