Handbook of Biometrics for Forensic Science

Description

This comprehensive handbook addresses the sophisticated forensic threats and challenges that have arisen in the modern digital age, and reviews the new computing solutions that have been proposed to tackle them. These include identity-related scenarios which cannot be solved with traditional approaches, such as attacks on security systems and the identification of abnormal/dangerous behaviors from remote cameras. Features: provides an in-depth analysis of the state of the art, together with a broad review of the available technologies and their potential applications; discusses potential future developments in the adoption of advanced technologies for the automated or semi-automated analysis of forensic traces; presents a particular focus on the acquisition and processing of data from real-world forensic cases; offers an holistic perspective, integrating work from different research institutions and combining viewpoints from both biometric technologies and forensic science Front Matter....Pages i-viii Biometric Technologies for Forensic Science and Policing: State of the Art....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Capture and Analysis of Latent Marks....Pages 19-35 Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems: From Fingerprints to Fingermarks....Pages 37-61 Challenges for Fingerprint Recognition—Spoofing, Skin Diseases, and Environmental Effects....Pages 63-83 Altered Fingerprint Detection....Pages 85-123 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Face Sketch Recognition via Data-Driven Synthesis....Pages 127-147 Recent Developments in Video-Based Face Recognition....Pages 149-175 Face Recognition Technologies for Evidential Evaluation of Video Traces....Pages 177-193 Human Factors in Forensic Face Identification....Pages 195-218 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Biometric Evidence in Forensic Automatic Speaker Recognition....Pages 221-239 On Using Soft Biometrics in Forensic Investigation....Pages 241-266 Locating People in Surveillance Video Using Soft Biometric Traits....Pages 267-288 Contact-Free Heartbeat Signal for Human Identification and Forensics....Pages 289-302 Front Matter....Pages 303-303 From Biometric Scores to Forensic Likelihood Ratios....Pages 305-327 Dynamic Signatures as Forensic Evidence: A New Expert Tool Including Population Statistics....Pages 329-349 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 Ethics and Policy of Forensic Biometrics....Pages 353-365 Back Matter....Pages 367-369