A cooperative coevolutionary approach dealing with the skull-face overlay uncertainty in forensic identification by craniofacial superimposition

Soft Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 797-808

  Ibanez O ^a   Cordon O ^a,b   Damas, S ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CMA ES; Coevolutionary algorithm; Craniofacial superimposition; Evolutionary algorithms; Forensic identification; Fuzzy distances; Fuzzy landmarks; Genetic fuzzy systems; skull face overlay

Indexed keywords

CMA-ES; CO-EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; CRANIOFACIAL SUPERIMPOSITION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FUZZY DISTANCE; FUZZY LANDMARKS; GENETIC FUZZY SYSTEMS; SKULL-FACE OVERLAY;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PHOTOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84859492757     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-011-0770-8     Document Type: Article

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