By
John Clement, Professor & Foundation Chair in Forensic Odontology, School of Dental Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Murray Marks, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Tennessee
Description
This unique books looks at a cost-efficient, fast and accurate means of facial reconstruction--from segmented, decomposed, or skeletal
remains--using computer-graphic and computational means.
Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction is designed as a valuable resource
for those scientists designing new research projects and protocols, as well as a practical handbook of methods and techniques for medico-legal
practitioners who actually identify the faceless victims of crime. It looks at a variety of approaches: artificial intelligence using
neural networks, case-based reasoning, Baysian belief systems, along with a variety of imaging methods: radiological, CT, MRI and the
use of imaging devices.
The methods described in this book complement, or may even replace, the less-reliable, more traditional means
of securing identification by presumptive means, i.e., recognition of clothing, personal effects and clay reconstruction.
Audience:
Researchers in craniofacial identification and facial reconstruction; pathologists; anthropologists; odontologists; vrime scene technicians;
victims’ advocates; oral, plastic, and maxillofacial surgeons; auxologists (craniofacial growth scientists); computer scientists; applied
mathematicians; digital and medical imaging professionals; archaeologists and historians; police computer specialist services; students
in many branches of the forensic sciences
