Figure 1.

Example of a forensic facial comparison analysis process between a wildtype (WT) photograph and a standardized (ST) photograph from the Wits Face Database [41] sample images in the SAPS court chart format. The individual facial features are numbered, analyzed, compared, and evaluated between the two images using the FISWG feature list [47]. Features marked in blue indicate morphological similarity between the two images, while features marked in red indicate morphological dissimilarity. In the example provided, skin color appears different due to lighting discrepancies in the two images (red 1); however, skin texture appears similar (blue 1). The facial images used for Figure 1 are images of the corresponding author of the present manuscript and are part of the sample images of the Wits Face Database [41], reproducible under an open access license distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The images can be found in the Wits Face Database data note, including the supplementary material for the Wits Face Database [41].