Testing and validating AnTraGoS algorithms with impact beating spatters
Abstract
The reconstruction of the area of origin of spatter patterns is usually a fundamental step to the determination of the area of the crime scene where the victim was wounded. In this field, for almost a decade, the italian Polizia di Stato has employed AnTraGoS, a forensic software which implements a probabilistic approach to identify the area where the horizontal projections of the trajectories of a set of blood drops converge (area of convergence) and to estimate the height of origin. In this paper we summarize a series of tests performed on a published dataset of spatter patterns, whose results confirm the validity of AnTraGoS and of its algorithms. As a side result, some useful suggestions are derived, concerning the determination of the height of origin, within a statistical and fluid dynamic approach.
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@article{arxiv.2003.08139,
title = {Testing and validating AnTraGoS algorithms with impact beating spatters},
author = {Francesco Camana and Massimiliano Gori and Luca De Rosa and Roberto Mangione},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08139},
year = {2020}
}
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