When investigators are working to solve a criminal case, they sometimes rely on experts who identify faces.
Testing Forensic Facial Examiners Until fairly recently, the justice system and law enforcement lacked ways to test how skilled an examiner was.
One of our efforts in response was to research the accuracy of forensic facial examiners.
A second group is the forensic facial examiners who do this professionally.
Facing the Future I’m now working on future research projects to help us better understand different aspects of how forensic facial examiners work.