In this chapter, the problems associated with the individualisation of people depicted in
photographic forensic evidence such as closed circuit television (CCTV) images are …

Government and private crime prevention initiatives in recent years have resulted in the
increasingly widespread establishment of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) systems. This …

Facial image identification is becoming an important theme in forensic anthropology
because surveillance cameras are used as a silent witness in crime scenes such as …

An image processing system has been used as an aid to locate four facial features on two
sets of passport-sized photographs. The discriminating power based on these facial …

Forensic facial comparison (FFC) is a scientific technique used to link suspects to a crime
scene based on the analysis of photos or video recordings from that scene. While basic …

Expert witnesses using facial comparison techniques are regularly required to disambiguate
cases of disputed identification in CCTV images and other photographic evidence in court …

This chapter describes the manner in which courts, across a number of different jurisdictions,
have responded to the use of images for the purposes of identification. It primarily focuses …

Facial image comparisons currently involve techniques which employ morphological or
anthropometric methods or a combination of both. Such methods come under the generic …

This paper reports an exhaustive analysis of the discriminative power of the different regions
of the human face on various forensic scenarios. In practice, when forensic examiners …

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 …