We've seen it in numerous TV shows and movies – the witness to a crime looks through a book of mug shots, then works with a police sketch artist to come up with a likeness of the nasty person they saw ...

We took 150 mug shots [which are paired with sketches] and added them to the database. We saw how often the system correctly found the sketch's mate in the mug shot database. Klare: We separated the ...

EAST LANSING, Mich., March 3 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say a new technique may soon automatically link hand-drawn police sketches of suspects with mug shot photos in police databases. Michigan State ...

Researchers have developed a set of algorithms and created software that will automatically match hand-drawn facial sketches to mug shots that are stored in law enforcement databases. The long-time ...

[Jim’s] pretty serious about his Etch a Sketch. He’s gone to the trouble of building a rig that will automatically render a photograph as Etch a Sketch art. Do you recognize the US political figure ...

The long-time practice of using police facial sketches to nab criminals has been, at best, an inexact art. But the process may soon be a little more exact thanks to the work of some Michigan State ...

WASHINGTON, USA: Nabbing criminals just became easier. Researchers have developed a set of algorithms that can automatically match hand-drawn facial sketches to mug shots of criminals stored in ...

It is cool enough that the authorities can match DNA or fingerprints in national databases, but here is something just as cool. Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a set of ...