Facial identification techniques
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1. A method of electronically assisted facial identification of a person comprising:
- displaying, for a human facial examiner on at least one display, at least two facial images of the person;
electronically maintaining, by a processor and storage, a predefined list of facial components to be examined by the human facial examiner in the at least two facial images, the predefined list of facial components assisting the human facial examiner with determining whether the at least two facial images are of different persons or of a same person; and
automatically guiding through information presented on at least one display the human facial examiner through the facial identification process using 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 storing a record 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 electronically assisted facial identification of a person comprising:
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displaying, for a human facial examiner on at least one display, at least two facial images of the person; electronically maintaining, by a processor and storage, a predefined list of facial components to be examined by the human facial examiner in the at least two facial images, the predefined list of facial components assisting the human facial examiner with determining whether the at least two facial images are of different persons or of a same person; and automatically guiding through information presented on at least one display the human facial examiner through the facial identification process using 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 storing a record 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 for a person comprising:
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at least one display and graphics processing unit that cooperate to display to a human facial examiner at least two facial images of the person; a processor and storage in electrical communication that electronically maintain a predefined list of facial components to be examined by the human facial examiner in the at least two facial images, the predefined list of facial components assisting the human facial examiner with determining whether the facial images are of different persons or of a same person; and a facial component list manager that automatically guides through information presented on the at least one display the human facial examiner through the facial identification process using 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 storing a record 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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31. A non-transitory computer readable information storage media having stored thereon instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause to be performed a method for electronically assisted facial identification of a person comprising:
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displaying, for a human facial examiner on at least one display, at least two facial images of the person; electronically maintaining, by a processor and storage, a predefined list of facial components to be examined by the human facial examiner in the at least two facial images, the predefined list of facial components assisting the human facial examiner with determining whether the at least two facial images are of different persons or of a same person; and automatically guiding through information presented on at least one display the human facial examiner through the facial identification process using 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 storing a record of which facial components have been examined.
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