Martin Evison

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Searching for your face: Millions of police mugshots digitised, but the tech is poor

27th February 2018

Prof. Martin Evison, Northumbria University

OPINION: Millions of images of faces have now been accumulated and digitised by police, but questions remain over how to search them, and how long to keep them. Prof. Martin Evison of Northumbria University outlines the problems.

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Martin Evison graduated in genetics from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1982. After a period of graduate study, work and travel in New Zealand and Australia, he pursued a six-year professional career in computing. He returned to academia in 1992 completing the MSc in Environmental Archaeology at Sheffield University. Martin’s academic background in genetics and archaeology allowed him to continue to doctoral research in low-template DNA analysis in a project co-supervised with Trent Centre, National Blood Service.