Prosopography, prosoporecognography and the Prosoporecognographical Chart

摘要

Abstract Recognizing and identifying an individual based on his or her face is a technical and scientific challenge and the objective of our investigation. This article's goal is to establish a method, a foundation and an instrument for carrying out the process of recognizing and identifying an individual. Both the construction of the term and the deepening, conceptualization and epistemology of the process of describing and representing the face through a particular method of recognizing and identifying individuals are described in this article. The proposal of the Prosoporecognographical Chart is an important step in the facial-identification process, establishing taxonomic parameters for the phenotypic manifestations of the elements constituting the face. Based on the proposal presented here, the construction of a protocol for the process of recognizing and identifying an individual can be implemented computationally. Highlights ? We examine the phenotypic manifestations of the human face. ? We propose a Prosoporecognographical Chart. ? We also propose a method to establish taxonomic parameters for phenotypic manifestations. ? The proposed model establishes a classification and subclassifications for the phenotypic manifestations.