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Forensic Applications
Introduction
The use of biometric data is a decisive process in forensic science that helps to establish a person’s identity or associate two unknown persons. Forensic scientists realized that physiological or behavioral data could help to inform about, sort, and potentially individualize the persons involved in criminal offenses. It is the case when (1) an unknown individual (living or his/her remains) has to be identified, (2) when biometric traces left by unknown individuals during activities of interest have to be traced back to their sources, or (3) when biometric traces have to be linked together in a series. Situations (1) and (2) require comparison between biometric information gathered from unknown sources and material of known (or declared as such) origin, either on a one-to-one or on a one-to-many basis. In the latter case, data of known origin are organized in a database, allowing one-to-many searches. The third situation (3) compares...
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Champod, C. (2015). Forensic Applications, Overview. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_100
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