Face Wise: A Training Course on Facial Recognition
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This document provides an overview of a facial recognition training course for law enforcement and security personnel. It notes that most people, including police officers, are not very good at identifying faces. The course aims to teach observation skills from an artist's perspective to improve facial recognition abilities. It is presented by John Demand and forensic artist Sharon Blanchard, and includes lessons on facial structure, features, disguises and changes over time. Participants take a pre-test and post-test to evaluate how much their skills improve after taking the training.
Face Wise: A Training Course on Facial Recognition
- 1. John Demand, Observation on Demand Sharon Blanchard, Forensic Artist FACE WISE: Facial Recognition Training Course Description & OutlineFor Law Enforcement and Security Personnel
- 2. How Well Can You Identify a Face?油Our research has found that police officers and security personnel, with few exceptions are not much better than the general public at identifying faces; and, for the most part, the general public does not do that well at all. All you really have to do is look at the statistics of the discrepancies in eye-witness accounts given over the years from victims and witnesses to crimes, to know that this is one of the least reliable ways to prove someones guilt.油When you are shown a photograph of a missing person, suspect, perpetrator, or fugitive can you instantly identify them? What if theyve disguised their looks by changing their hair color or hairstyle? Do you know what to look for in a face in order to make a correct identification?
- 3. The reason you may not be as good at identification as you need to be, is that you havent been trained to know the structure and features of the face the way an artist does. Observation on Demand has teamed up with forensic artist Sharon Blanchard to present a training program that will give you the skills to become a master at facial recognition. 油Look at the drawing below that was created by Ms. Blanchard from her interview of the victim and the booking photograph of the perpetrator when he was arrested, just a few days later.
- 4. Ms. Blanchard has developed an interview process that relaxes a witness to enable very precise descriptive evidence, and uses her artistic ability to create remarkable likenesses. Reverse engineering on her process provides a methodology to see through the eyes of an artist.Course Description & Outline油Facial Recognition Training teaches the observer to use these newly learned skills to identify facial features of suspects, missing persons and other individuals by changing their mindset to look at the features in a human face from an artists perspective. By the conclusion of the course the student will have practiced observational and motor skill exercises that also help to increase their cognitive facial recognition skills.油 Facial Recognition pre test. - This is a test to determine the students ability to identify a face from a target picture and link the same person in another group of three people that look similar.油
- 5. Course Description & Outline (contd)油 The problem with Eyewitnesses
- 8. Line Ups
- 9. Understanding the symmetry of the human face 油 How faces and features differ油 Disguises and facial changes
- 10. Aging
- 11. Facial Hair
- 12. Hair styles
- 14. Drugs and their effect on facial features油
- 15. 油 I cant draw a straight line. You dont have to!