Design of criteria to assess craniofacial correspondence in forensic identification based on computer vision and fuzzy integrals

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 46, Issue , 2016, Pages 596-612

  Campomanes Alvarez, Carmen ^a   Ibáñez, Oscar ^a   Cordón, Oscar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Craniofacial superimposition; Decision making; Forensic identification; Spatial relations; Sugeno integral

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER CRIME; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY INFERENCE; IMAGE MATCHING;

CRANIOFACIAL; DISCRIMINATIVE POWER; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL RELATIONS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SUGENO INTEGRALS; VISION-BASED APPROACHES;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84949481235     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2015.11.006     Document Type: Article

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