Visual Support Devices: Evaluation of a New Technique for Constructing Facial Images
Kenneth R. Laughery, Victoria Louise Smith, Mary B. Yount · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 1980
A facial recognition study explored the utility of a relatively new image generation technique – the Field Identification System (FIS). Subjects saw an FIS composite and then attempted to select the target face in a series of photographs. The effect of composite similarity (goodness-of-fit of the image with the target person) was significant, with high similarity composites leading to better recognition (30 percent hit rates). Performance with low similarity composites was no better than chance. False alarms were 20 percent overall, with no difference between conditions. The results have implications for criminal identification procedures.