Face Recognition in Forensic Science

Abstract

In this chapter, we will first explain the current means of comparing faces used by forensic science laboratories. It is a nonautomated process performed by forensic examiners and has been referred to as facial ``photographic comparison'' or forensic facial identification. Next, we will outline the innovative ways in which facial recognition systems are being used by the for@InProceedings{Feng_2018_CVPR_Workshops, author = {Feng, Weitao and Ji, Deyi and Wang, Yiru and Chang, Shuorong and Ren, Hansheng and Gan, Weihao}, title = {Challenges on Large Scale Surveillance Video Analysis}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops}, month = {June}, year = {2018} }ensic community. Lastly, we will discuss the growing future of facial biometrics in the legal system and the increasing (not decreasing) need for human examiners to perform facial identification in combination with the automated facial recognition systems.