Facial identification techniques
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1. A method of providing electronically assisted facial identification comprising:
- displaying, on at least one display for a human facial examiner, at least two facial images;
electronically maintaining, by a processor and storage, a predefined list of facial components to be examined by the human facial examiner in the least two facial images, the predefined list of facial components guiding the human facial examiner to assist the human facial examiner with determining whether the facial images are of different persons or of a same person; and
automatically guiding the human facial examiner through the facial identification process in response to interaction with the electronically maintained list of facial components, wherein the automatic guiding includes providing one or more of instructions, guidelines and anatomical definitions to the human facial examiner, andmaintaining in storage an electronic database of which facial components have been examined.
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Abstract
As the use of facial biometrics expands in the commercial and government sectors, the need to ensure that human facial examiners use proper procedures to compare facial imagery will grow. Human examiners have examined fingerprint images for many years such that fingerprint examination processes and techniques have reached a point of general acceptance for both commercial and governmental use. The growing deployment and acceptance of facial recognition can be enhanced and solidified if new methods can be used to assist in ensuring and recording that proper examination processes were performed during the human examination of facial imagery.
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1. A method of providing electronically assisted facial identification comprising:
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displaying, on at least one display for a human facial examiner, at least two facial images; electronically maintaining, by a processor and storage, a predefined list of facial components to be examined by the human facial examiner in the least two facial images, the predefined list of facial components guiding the human facial examiner to assist the human facial examiner with determining whether the facial images are of different persons or of a same person; and automatically guiding the human facial examiner through the facial identification process in response to interaction with the electronically maintained list of facial components, wherein the automatic guiding includes providing one or more of instructions, guidelines and anatomical definitions to the human facial examiner, and maintaining in storage an electronic database of which facial components have been examined. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A facial identification system to automatically assist with performing a facial identification process comprising:
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at least one display and graphics processing unit that cooperate to display at least two facial images near one other; a processor and storage in electrical communication that electronically maintain a predefined list of facial components to be examined when the two facial images on the at least one display are analyzed by a human facial examiner to determine whether the facial images are of different persons or of a same person; and a facial component list manager that automatically guides the human facial examiner through the facial identification process in response to the electronically maintained list of facial components, wherein the automatic guiding includes providing one or more of instructions, guidelines and anatomical definitions to the human facial examiner and keeping track of which facial components have been examined by the human facial examiner. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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