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Posted October 30, 2024

Fingerprints, Firearms and Toolmarks, Footwear Impressions, Forensic Science

Researchers from the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) continually publish new research for the forensic and legal communities to apply to their work. Below is a selection of recently published peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and conference proceedings.
For additional CSAFE publications, visit our searchable resources section on our website.

An Algorithm for Forensic Toolmark Comparisons

Maria Cuellar, Sheng Gao and Heike Hofmann
Forensic Science International: Synergy

A Preliminary Study of the Manufacturing of Breech Faces

Veronica Franklin and Keith Morris
Journal of Forensic Sciences

A Reproducible Pipeline for Extracting Representative Signals from Wire Cuts

Yuhang Lin and Heike Hofmann
American Statistical Association Student Paper Competition

A Survey of Naming Conventions for Different Minutia Types in Friction Ridge Examination

Heidi Eldridge, Adele Quigley-McBride and Brett Gardner
Journal of Forensic Identification

Challenges in Modeling, Interpreting, and Drawing Conclusions from Images as Forensic Evidence

Karen Kafadar and Alicia Carriquiry
Statistics and Data Science in Imaging

CriSp: Leveraging Tread Depth Maps for Enhanced Crime-Scene Shoeprint Matching

Samia Shafique, Shu Kong and Charless Fowlkes
Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision

Examiner Consistency in Perceptions of Fingerprint Minutia Rarity

Adele Quigley-McBride, Heidi Eldridge and Brett Gardner
Forensic Science International

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