CSAFE projects

partially funded by NIST

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
FOR PATTERN AND DIGITAL EVIDENCE

Firearms and Toolmarks

Project Identifier	Project Title	Lead Pl(s)	Institution
F&T I	Statistical and Algorithmic Approaches to Matching Bullets and Cartridges	Heike Hofmann	ISU
F&T II	Subclass Characterization and Analysis of Firearms	Keith Morris	WVU
F&T IV	Evaluating Foundational Validity of Toolmark Analysis	Maria Cuellar	UPenn

Footwear Impressions

Project Identifier	Project Title	Lead Pl(s)	Institution
FW I	Occurrence and Persistence of Accidental Mark Locations On a Shoe Sole	Hal Stern, Naomi Kaplan-Damary	UCI, Hebrew University
FW II	Statistical Models for the Generation and Interpretation of Footwear Impression Evidence	Charless Fowlkes	UCI
FW III	Characterization of Footwear in Local Populations	Susan Vanderplas	UNL
FW IV	Statistical and Algorithmic Approaches to Shoeprint Analysis	Alicia Carriquiry, Jacqueline Speir	ISU, WVU

Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

Project Identifier	Project Title	Lead Pl(s)	Institution
BPA I	Statistical Methods for Bloodstain Pattern Analysis	Hal Stern	UCI

Latent Print Analysis

Project Identifier	Project Title	Lead Pl(s)	Institution
LPA I	Predicting Accuracy of Forensic Evidence Assessments using Quality Metrics	Karen Kafadar	UVA
LPA II	Implementation of Item Response Theory to Improve Proficiency Testing for Pattern Evidence	Amanda Luby	Swathmore College
LPA III	Blind Proficiency Testing	Robin Mejia, Sharon Kelley	CMU, UVA
LPA IV	Forensic Processing at Crime Laboratories	Brett Gardner, Robin Mejia	UVA
LPA V	Statistical Failures in Forensic Contributions to Exoneration	Simon Cole	UCI
LPA VI	Perceived and Actual Fingerprint Minutiae Frequency	Adele Quigley-McBride	Duke

Handwriting Analysis

Project Identifier	Project Title	Lead Pl(s)	Institution
HW II	Handwriting Evaluation	Alicia Carriquiry, Danica Ommen	ISU

Digital Evidence

Project Identifier	Project Title	Lead Pl(s)	Institution
DIG I	StegoAppDB: a reference database with variational sources for mobile steganography image forensics	Jennifer Newman	ISU
DIG II	Statistical Modeling of Digital Event Data with Forensic Applications	Padhraic Smyth	UCI
DIG III	Mobile App Evidence Analysis	Yong Guan	ISU
DIG IV	Quantifying the Strength of Camera Identification Evidence with Score-based Likelihood Ratios	Stephanie Reinders, Danica Ommen, Alicia Carriquiry	ISU

CROSS CUTTING ISSUES

Statistics

Project Identifier	Project Title	Lead Pl(s)	Institution
STAT I	Statistical Methods to Assess Reliability, Reproducibility, Accuracy of Categorical Forensic Opinions	Hal Stern	UCI
STAT II	Validation and Reliability of Score-Based Likelihood Ratios (SLRs) for Forensic Evidence	Danica Ommen	ISU
STAT III	Machine Learning Methods for Dependent Score-Data Resulting From Forensic Evidence Comparisons	Danica Ommen	ISU

Implementation and Practice

Project Identifier	Project Title	Lead Pl(s)	Institution
IMPL I	Evaluating Lay Perceptions of Forensic Evidence	Brandon Garrett, Bill Thompson	UCI, Duke
IMPL III	Understanding the Barriers to Accepting Probabilistic Methods	Simon Cole	UCI

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Training and Education

Project Identifier	Project Title	Lead Pl(s)	Institution
ED I	Training and Education for Forensic Practitioners	Alicia Carriquiry, Hal Stern	UCI
ED II	Training and Education for the Legal Community	Brandon Garrett	Duke
ED III	University Forensic Statistics Instruction	Alicia Carriquiry, Robin Mejia, Casper Venter, Keith Morris	ISU, CMU, WVU
ED V	Summer Research Experiences in Forensics	Alicia Carriquiry, Robin Mejia	ISU, CMU