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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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Challenges in Modeling, Interpreting, and Drawing Conclusions from Images as Forensic Evidence
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Footwear,Forensic Statistics,Handwriting,Latent Print
Published: 2024 | By: Karen Kafadar
When a crime is committed, law enforcement directs crime scene experts to obtain evidence that may be pertinent to identifying the perpetrator(s). Much of this evidence comes in the form of images, either digitally transcribed (e.g.,: fingerprints, handwriting), or as…
A preliminary study of the manufacturing of breech faces
Type: Publication Research Area(s): Firearms and Toolmarks,Forensic Statistics
Published: 2024 | By: Veronica Franklin
Firearm examiners may face challenges with subclass characteristics. Subclass characteristics have the potential to be confused with individual characteristics if a careful analysis for the presence of subclass characteristics is not performed. Several case studies are reported in the literature…
Aligning Shoeprint Images that have nonlinear distortion effects
Type: Poster Research Area(s): Footwear,Forensic Statistics
Published: 2024 | By: Gautham Venkatasubramanian
Shoeprints are aligned before assessing similarity, and automatic alignment algorithms can handle differences in translation, rotation [1], and scale. But shoeprints recorded at a crime scene may be partials photographed at an angle without an L-scale, with perspective or other…
Forensic Analysis of Android Cloud SDKs
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Digital
Published: 2024 | By: Chen Shi
This presentation is from the 76th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Denver, Colorado, February 19-24, 2024.
Is it a True Match? Top k correlations in a database search
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Firearms and Toolmarks,Forensic Statistics
Published: 2024 | By: Blanca Parker
This presentation is from the 76th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Denver, Colorado, February 19-24, 2024.
Quantifying Bayes Factors for Forensic Handwriting Evidence
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Handwriting
Published: 2024 | By: Anyesha Ray
This presentation is from the 76th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Denver, Colorado, February 19-24, 2024.
Quantifying Writer Variance Through Rainbow Triangle Graph Decomposition
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Handwriting
Published: 2024 | By: Alexandra Arabio
This presentation is from the 76th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Denver, Colorado, February 19-24, 2024
Graph-Theoretic Techniques for Forensic Image Comparisons
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Footwear,Forensic Statistics
Published: 2024 | By: Gautham Venkatasubramanian
This presentation is from the 76th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Denver, Colorado, February 19-24, 2024.
Presumption of Innocence, Probable Cause, and Prior Probability—Bayes Meets Due Process
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Forensic Statistics
Published: 2024 | By: Jeff Salyards
This presentation is from the 76th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Denver, Colorado, February 19-24, 2024.
Toward Consistency in Latent Print Examiners’ Naming Conventions and Minutiae Frequency Estimations
Type: Presentation Slides Research Area(s): Latent Print
Published: 2024 | By: Adele Quigley-McBride
This presentation is from the 76th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Denver, Colorado, February 19-24, 2024.
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