Giving crime the 'evo': Catching criminals using EvoFIT facial composites

Proceedings - EST 2010 - 2010 International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies, ROBOSEC 2010 - Robots and Security, LAB-RS 2010 - Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 36-43

  Frowd, Charlie D ^a   Hancock, Peter J B ^b   Bruce, Vicki ^c   McIntyre, Alex H ^b   Pitchford, Melanie ^d   Atkins, Rebecca ^a   Webster, Andrew ^e   Pollard, John ^e   Hunt, Beverley ^f   Price, Emma ^f   Morgan, Sandra ^f   Stoika, Adrian ^g   Dughila, Romeo ^h   Maftei, Sergiu ^h   Sendrea, Gabriel ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Lancashire Constabulary ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f Forensic Services Unit   (United Kingdom)

^g NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^h Forensic Department of Iasi County Police Inspectorate   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS; CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION; POLICE FORCES; TESTING PROCEDURE;

LABORATORIES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

CRIME;

EID: 78649412281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EST.2010.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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