Police forces should issue funny caricatures of the criminals they are hunting, a team of scientists in England said. The scientists said that cartoon-like faces are better than normal photos at jolting people's memories.
The study found that exaggerating features on people's faces made them twice as easy to identify as before.
The scientists turned the faces of 18 celebrities into caricatures by exaggerating some features. For example, they made people's ears, foreheads or noses bigger.
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The scientists then used the caricatures in tests. Volunteers were asked to identify people from normal photos and from the caricatures.
On average, a normal photo face was correctly identified 20% of the time. Caricature faces were correctly identified 40% of the time.
The scientists are talking with police about maybe using caricatures to help catch criminals.
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英國某科學團隊指出，警方應發布通緝中罪犯的Q版畫像。科學家認為，卡通人像比一般照片更能激起民眾的記憶。
這項研究發現，和傳統相片比較起來，誇張的臉部特徵能讓指認工作事半功倍。
科學家以誇大部份特徵的手法為十八位名人製作Q版畫像，例如把他們的耳朵、額頭或鼻子畫大。
然後他們將這些Q版畫像用在測驗中，要求自願受試者從普通相片和漫畫肖像中辨識人物。
平均來說，該實驗正常相片的正確辨認率僅有兩成，而Q版畫像則有四成。
科學家建議警方，也許可以利用Q版畫像來協助緝捕罪犯。（衛報�翻譯：袁星塵）
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