The development of an automatic recognition system for earmark and earprint comparisons

Forensic Science International

Volumn 222, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 170-178

  Junod, Stéphane ^a   Pasquier, Julien ^a   Champod, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic comparison; Earmark; Earprint; Recognition; Weight of evidence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DERMATOGLYPHICS; EARMARK; EARPRINT; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84865624525     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.05.021     Document Type: Article

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