Friday, January 20, 2006

Police put a face on crime / The Courier-Journal, 10 Jan 2006

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Mark Coomes
"The LMPD -- and thousands of other law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI and CIA -- create facial images of criminal suspects using a program called FACES 4.0. The software contains a database of 4,400 different eyes, ears, noses, mouths, hairstyles and such. Guided by a victim's memory of a perpetrator's face, police trained in this discipline of video forensics repeatedly combine different features until the victim is satisfied with the result.
They rarely have to say so. Actions speak louder than words. "