Photo-anthropometric overlay
Definition
A technique that aligns and scales two facial images and computes proportional distances between anatomical landmarks, used when direct feature comparison is constrained by pose or resolution.
Related terms
- Conclusion scale
- The structured verbal scale recommended by FISWG, ranging from Exclusion through Inconclusive to Identification, used to communicate the weight of facial comparison...
- 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 Now largely superseded in international literature...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,...
Explained in
- Facial Image Comparison: Morphological and Holistic MethodsA technique that aligns and scales two facial images and computes proportional distances between anatomical landmarks, used when direct feature comparison is c...