Latent Fingerprint Aging from a Hyperspectral Perspective: First Qualitative Degradation Studies Using UV/VIS Spectroscopy

Proceedings - 9th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics, IMF 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 121-135

  Merkel, Ronny ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

age estimation; digitized crime scene forensics; eccrine vs. sebaceous; hyperspectral imaging; latent fingerprints; UV VIS spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; CRIME; SECURITY OF DATA; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

AGE ESTIMATION; CRIME SCENE FORENSICS; ECCRINE VS. SEBACEOUS; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; LATENT FINGERPRINT; UV/ VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

LIGHT;

EID: 84953306121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMF.2015.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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