Creating faces – from real to synthetic data

THE EVENT

In forensic investigation, facial creation techniques provide valuable ways to help identify the unidentified and can serve as proxies without real face data. However, with their creation comes multiple challenges, both in terms of data sources and techniques, but also their identifiability. At what point do real face images transition to synthetic data, and can those real faces still be identified?

Attendees will be provided with an overview of the creation of facial depictions and synthetic faces, how data is sourced, the methods used, and the challenges faced in presenting these images to the public.

This event will take place on December 12, 2024, at 4 PM CET.

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SPEAKER

Sarah Shrimpton, Ph. D.

Sarah is a Research fellow and forensic casework manager in Face Lab, and Communications officer for the Forensic Research Institute, at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Face Lab is a research group that carries out forensic and archaeological research and consultancy work, including craniofacial analysis, facial depiction, and forensic art. Sarah’s research interests mainly focus on recognition of faces from facial depictions and synthetic faces.