Dispersion assessment in the location of facial landmarks on photographs

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 227-236

  Campomanes Alvarez B R ^a   Ibanez O ^a   Navarro, F ^b   Aleman I ^b   Cordon O ^a,b   Damas, S ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Facial landmarks; Facial morphology; Forensic anthropology; Landmark location; Observer dispersion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FACE; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926231304     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-014-1002-4     Document Type: Article

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