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Change cannot happen without community. CSAFE is passionate about achieving its mission to apply a statistically sound and scientifically solid foundation to the interpretation of forensic evidence. To that end, we invite fellow scientists and researchers, along with those in the forensic and legal communities, to use and share these resources as we work together to elevate forensic science and technology.

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Towards a likelihood ratio approach for bloodstain pattern analysis

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Published: 2022 | By: Tong Zou

In this work, we explore the application of likelihood ratio as a forensic evidence assessment tool to evaluate the causal mechanism of a bloodstain pattern. It is assumed that there are two competing hypotheses regarding the cause of a bloodstain…

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Does image editing improve the quality of latent prints? An analysis of image-editing techniques in one crime laboratory

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Published: 2023 | By: Brett Gardner

Field research within latent print comparison has remained sparse in the context of an otherwise growing body of literature examining the discipline. Studies examining how ACE-V procedures are implemented within active crime laboratories are especially lacking in light of research…

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An Open-Source Implementation of the CMPS Algorithm for Assessing Similarity of Bullets

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Published: 2022 | By: Wangqian Ju

In this paper, we introduce the R package cmpsR, an open-source implementation of the Congruent Matching Profile Segments (CMPS) method developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for objective comparison of striated tool marks. The functionality of…

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A Data-Driven Approach to Model the Generation Process of Bloodstain Patterns

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Published: 2022 | By: Tong Zou

This poster was presented at the 106th International Association for Identification

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A Pipeline for Cartridge Case Comparisons

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Published: 2022 | By: Joseph Zemmels

We introduce novel sub-procedures in the pre-processing, comparison and similarity feature steps. The sub-procedures result in an improved error rate compared to our implementation of the CMC method while also requiring fewer parameters. The fitted Decision tree model is easily…

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Reply to Response to Vacuous standards – Subversion of the OSAC standards-development process

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Published: 2021 | By: Geoffrey Stewart Morrison

This Letter to the Editor is a reply to Mohammed et al. (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2021.100145, which in turn is a response to Morrison et al. (2020) “Vacuous standards – subversion of the OSAC standards-development process” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2020.06.005.

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LibDroid: Summarizing information flow of Android Native Libraries via Static Analysis

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Published: 2022 | By: Chen Shi

With advancements in technology, people are taking advantage of mobile devices to access e-mails, search the web, and video chat. Therefore, extracting evidence from mobile phones is an important component of the investigation process. As Android app developers could leverage…

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Jury Perception of Bullet Matching Algorithms and Demonstrative Evidence

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Published: 2022 | By: Rachel Rogers

Presented at Joint Statistical Meetings

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Comparing handwriter and FLASH ID®, Two Handwriting Analysis Programs

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Published: 2022 | By: Stephanie Reinders

FLASH ID and handwriter are computer programs that compare questioned handwritten documents against handwritten samples from known writers. FLASH ID was developed by Sciometrics and is used by the FBI, Handwriter is an open-source R package designed by CSAFE. We…

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Evaluating Reference Sets for Score-Based Likelihood Ratios for Camera Device Identification

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Published: 2022 | By: Stephanie Reinders

An investigator wants to know if an illicit image captured by an unknown camera was taken by a person of interest’s (POI’s) phone. Score-based likelihood ratios (SLRs) have been used to answer this question in previous research. We explore whether…

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