Conclusion scale
Definition
The structured verbal scale recommended by FISWG, ranging from Exclusion through Inconclusive to Identification, used to communicate the weight of facial comparison evidence to courts and investigators.
Related terms
- Facial Mapping
- The term used primarily in the UK and Australia for the forensic comparison of facial images. Now largely superseded in international literature...
- FISWG
- The Facial Identification Scientific Working Group, a US-originated but internationally engaged body that produced guidelines for forensic facial comparison, including a standardised...
- Holistic assessment
- Evaluation of the face as an integrated whole rather than as a sum of parts, drawing on the examiner's trained perceptual processing...
- Morphological analysis
- The systematic comparison of qualitative facial feature shapes from a standardised feature list; the primary method in ENFSI BPM facial image comparison,...
- Photo-anthropometric overlay
- A technique that aligns and scales two facial images and computes proportional distances between anatomical landmarks, used when direct feature comparison is...
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- Facial Image Comparison: Morphological and Holistic MethodsThe structured verbal scale recommended by FISWG, ranging from Exclusion through Inconclusive to Identification, used to communicate the weight of facial compa...