Modeling Facial Soft Tissue Thickness for Automatic Skull-Face Overlay

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2057-2070

  Rosario Campomanes Alvarez B ^a   Ibanez, Oscar ^a,b   Campomanes Alvarez, Carmen ^a,b   Damas, Sergio ^a   Cordon, Oscar ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D 2D skull face overlay; craniofacial identification; craniofacial superimposition; forensic anthropology; fuzzy sets and distances; soft tissues

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING;

3D-2D SKULL-FACE OVERLAY; AUTOMATIC APPROACHES; CRANIOFACIAL; FACIAL SOFT TISSUES; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGIES; SOFT TISSUE; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TRIAL-AND-ERROR APPROACH;

TISSUE;

EID: 84939230182     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2015.2441000     Document Type: Article

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