Survey of 1276 shoeprint impressions and development of an automatic shoeprint pattern matching facility

Science and Justice - Journal of the Forensic Science Society

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 79-89

  Hannigan, T J ^a   Fleury, L M ^a   Reilly, R B ^b   O'Mullane, B A ^b   DeChazal, P ^b  

^a Forensic Science Laboratory Dulin Ireland   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Automatic; Databases; Digital images; Footwear impressions; Forensic science; Interpretation; Pattern matching; Shoeprints; Survey

Indexed keywords

CRIMINOLOGY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; REVIEW; SHOEPRINT;

EID: 33748785713     PISSN: 13550306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1355-0306(06)71578-7     Document Type: Article

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