Talk:Facial composite

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Could this be relevant information for this page? http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2006/09/when_crimefighting_tools_go_ba.php Wopr 17:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright in facial composites?[edit]

Say a user uses facial composite software to make facial composite. I would imagine that the software copies component textures from a database, possibly making the composite a derivative work. Is there a reliable source that clarifies to what extent the software's copyright owner can claim copyright in this composite? A preliminary Google search for facial composite copyright only turned up pages about facial composites in general, with "copyright" appearing in the page's copyright notice. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 16:45, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mii?[edit]

I've noticed some similarity between facial composite software and some video game environments' "avatar" creation tools. Has anyone else? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 00:58, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. It's essentially the same idea. Such widespread use / familiarity surely now deserves a mention here. Martinevans123 (talk) 01:28, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

True, but without a reliable source, the similarity between facial composites based on eyewitness memory (the subject of this article) and facial composites for avatars (e.g. Mii) is an original synthesis, which Wikipedia prohibits in the article namespace. I tried searching for mii "facial composite" using Google, and apart from one story about facial composites that had a comment about Miis (comments are deemed unreliable), I got pages partly in a foreign language where "mii" is an ordinary word that means something completely unrelated to Wii, pages about MII standing for something else unrelated to Wii (e.g. "Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute"), and two pages of keyword stuffing. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 01:55, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regretable, pehaps, that Wikipedia seems to become then the hand-maiden of Google here, in the (composite) face of common-sense? As any Wii player will tell us, the technique is essentially identical to the most basic facial composite packages. Should one use to which a tool has been put really overshadow its nature? "Be bold"? Martinevans123 (talk) 02:11, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Prefigured by a Shadow novel?[edit]

http://www.spaceports.com/~deshadow/reviews/shadow117.html 12:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)Enda80 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enda80 (talk • contribs)

Archive of the link: http://web.archive.org/web/20070715000000*/http://www.spaceports.com/~deshadow/reviews/shadow117.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.72.237.214 (talk) 12:38, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

History[edit]

We should try to translate the French article, as it gives the history and the invention of the "Facial composite" (French: "portrait-robot". It has been first used in France in 1953 on the case of the "Eugénie Bertrant" murder. The policemen used a game that got a patent few years earlier. See the French article (that should be more sourced by the way) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:8A8D:FE80:B5A3:97FD:1F8E:80 (talk) 23:32, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The unsupplied meaning of the word "naming"[edit]

In the article's "Research" section, the word "naming" occurs 7 or 8 times. What does it mean? A reader would expect at least its first occurrence to be accompanied by a definition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barkenhum (talk • contribs) 16:34, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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