Our goal is to share how CSAFE research directly impacts the forensic science community. To connect you with the latest advancements, our team publicizes research results in peer-reviewed scientific journals and at worldwide forensic science conferences.
Below you will find links to full publications resulting from center research, as well as copies of recent presentation slides. Looking for more CSAFE products? Find research tools and datasets in our resources section.
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The Implementation of a Blind Quality Control Program in a Forensic Laboratory
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice,Latent Print
Published: 2021 | By: Callan Hundl
Presented at American Association of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) 2021
A Response to the Threat of Stegware
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Digital
Published: 2021 | By: Abby Martin
Stegware refers to software, programs or apps that allow insertion of malware into a digital file, such as an image or video, using steganography techniques. Although it has been in action for around 15 years, “steganography” and “stegware” have recently…
A Novel, Data-Driven Approach to the Classification of Bloodstain Patterns
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Bloodstain
Published: 2021 | By: Tong Zou
Bloodstain pattern analysis is the study of bloodstains at a crime scene with the purpose of drawing inference about the crime. A typical objective for bloodstain pattern analysis is to identify the cause/mechanism that produced the pattern. Examples of possible…
A Forensic Analysis of Joker-Enabled Android Malware Apps
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Digital
Published: 2021 | By: Chen Shi
This project aims at developing a set of automated Android Malware vetting tools to discover all the malicious behaviors of Android Malwares in the forms of files in the local storage, SQLite database, or data sent to remote 3-party server(s).…
A Field Analysis of Laboratory Case Processing: Latent Print Comparison and Examiner Conclusions
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice,Latent Print
Published: 2021 | By: Brett Gardner
Presented at American Association of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
Reliability for Ordinal Data in Forensics
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Hina Arora
Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2021
Studying Reliability for Pattern Evidence Comparisons
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Hina Arora
Presentation prepared for International Association for Identification (IAI) 2021
Bayesian Item Response Theory for Human Factors in Forensic Science
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Amanda Luby
Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2021
Machine Learning Methods for Dependent Data Resulting from Forensic Evidence Comparisons
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Danica Ommen
Presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting in 2021
Footwear Research in CSAFE
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Footwear
Published: 2021 | By: Alicia Carriquiry
This presentation provided an overview of CSAFE’s footwear research and was presented at IAI in 2021
Using Mixture Models to Examine Group Differences – Studying Juror Perceptions of the Strength of Forensic Science Evidence
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics,Implementation and Practice
Published: 2021 | By: Naomi Kaplan-Damary
The following presentation was presented at 2021 International Association for Identification (IAI)
A practical tool for information management in forensic decisions: Using Linear Sequential Unmasking-Expanded (LSU-E) in casework
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice
Published: 2022 | By: Adele Quigley-McBride
Forensic analysts often receive information from a multitude of sources. Empirical work clearly demonstrates that biasing information can affect analysts’ decisions, and that the order in which task-relevant information is received impacts human cognition and decision-making. Linear Sequential Unmasking (LSU; Dror et…
The effect of image descriptors on the performance of classifiers of footwear outsole image pairs
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Footwear
Published: 2022 | By: Soyoung Park
Shoe prints are commonly found at the scene of a crime and can sometimes help link a suspect to the scene. Because prints tend to be partially observed or smudgy, comparing crime scene prints with reference images from a putative…
LogExtractor: Extracting Digital Evidence from Android Log Messages via String and Taint Analysis
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Digital
Published: 2021 | By: Chris Chao-Chun
Mobile devices are increasingly involved in crimes. Therefore, digital evidence on mobile devices plays a more and more important role in crime investigations. Existing studies have designed tools to identify and/or extract digital evidence in the main memory or the file…
Forensic Analysis on Joker Family Android Malware
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Digital
Published: 2021 | By: Chen Shi
Android is the most popular operating system among mobile devices and the malware targeted explicitly for Android is rapidly growing and spreading across the mobile ecosystem. In this paper, we propose a hybrid analysis of Android malware to retrieve evidential…
Using the Likelihood Ratio in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Bloodstain,Forensic Statistics
Published: 2021 | By: Daniel Attinger
There is an apparent paradox that the likelihood ratio (LR) approach is an appropriate measure of the weight of evidence when forensic findings have to be evaluated in court, while it is typically not used by bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA)…
Handwriting Identification using Random Forests and Score-based Likelihood Ratios
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics,Handwriting
Published: 2021 | By: Madeline Johnson
Handwriting analysis is conducted by forensic document examiners who are able to visually recognize characteristics of writing to evaluate the evidence of writership. Recently, there have been incentives to investigate how to quantify the similarity between two written documents to…
Source-Anchored, Trace-Anchored, and General Match Score-Based Likelihood Ratios for Camera Device Identification
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Digital,Forensic Statistics
Published: 2022 | By: Stephanie Reinders
Forensic camera device identification addresses the scenario, where an investigator has two pieces of evidence: a digital image from an unknown camera involved in a crime, such as child pornography, and a person of interest’s (POI’s) camera. The investigator wants…
Forensic Science in Legal Education
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice,Training and Education
Published: 2021 | By: Brandon Garrett
In criminal cases, forensic science reports and expert testimony play an increasingly important role in adjudication. More states now follow a federal reliability standard, following Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and Rule 702, which call upon judges to assess the…
Psychometrics for Forensic Fingerprint Comparisons
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Implementation and Practice,Latent Print
Published: 2021 | By: Amanda Luby
Forensic science often involves the evaluation of crime-scene evidence to determine whether it matches a known-source sample, such as whether a fingerprint or DNA was left by a suspect or if a bullet was fired from a specific firearm. Even…
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