Odd e-fit/Wir hatten nur lange Schnurrbärte auf dem Polizeirechner
am 09.02.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
The BBC reports that an identikit picture of a burglary suspect looked so strange that the victim of a robbery feared it would not help find him.
I see this is referred to as an ‘e-fit image’. Google reveals the superordinate term facial composite, and sub-categories identikit, photofit, e-fit. Sorry, that should be E-fit - because it’s a trademark. Here is more:
The composite facial system currently favoured by the U.K. police, and used in 18 other countries, is known as ‘E-FIT’ (Electronic-Facial Identification Technique). Despite the major improvements achieved over earlier systems such as IdentiKit and PhotoFit, some inherent weaknesses have been identified in the E-FIT system. The E-FIT system is fundamentally based on the selection of individual facial features (eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows etc) from a large library that are electronically “blended” to make the composite image. There is, however, a considerable body of evidence to suggest that the task of face recognition and synthesis does not lend itself to simple decomposition into features and is at least partly, a global process
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