Reconstruction of deformed bite marks using affine transformations

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 784-787

  Stols, Gerrit ^a   Bernitz, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Affine transformations; Bite mark deformations; Forensic odontology; Forensic science

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BITE; DENTISTRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BITES, HUMAN; FORENSIC DENTISTRY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951127090     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: 15564029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01337.x     Document Type: Article

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