Roll
in facial identification, an intrinsic rotation of the head about a horizontal front-to-back (sagittal) axis measured in degrees. Discussion—Frontal poses have a roll angle of 0. Positive angles represent faces tilted toward their right shoulder (counter-clockwise rotation around the axis). A roll angle of 0 denotes that the left and right eye centers have identical vertical coordinates. The roll axis is typically defined as the Z-axis (positive forward).