Computer vision and soft computing for automatic skull-face overlay in craniofacial superimposition

Forensic Science International

Volumn 245, Issue , 2014, Pages 77-86

  Campomanes Álvarez, B Rosario ^a   Ibanez O ^a   Navarro, F ^b   Aleman I ^b   Botella, M ^b   Damas, S ^a   Cordon O ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Craniofacial superimposition; Forensic anthropology; Fuzzy landmarks; Skull face overlay; Soft computing

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAMERA; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FACE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANATOMIC LANDMARKS; FACE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; SKULL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84909598047     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.10.009     Document Type: Article

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