Citation

Laughery KR, Smith VL. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 1978; 22(1): 631-635.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1071181378022001165

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A facial recognition study explored the utility of two common image generation techniques--sketches and Identi-kit composites. Subjects saw an image (sketch or composite) and then attempted to select the target face in a series of photographs. The effect of image quality (goodness-of-fit of the image with the target person) was a second variable. Better images led to better recognition performance. Image type was marginally significant--sketches were better than composites. The results have implications for criminal identification systems.

Language: en