Craniofacial Superimposition involves the superimposition of an image of a skull with a number of ante-mortem face images of an individual and the analysis of their morphological correspondence. Despite being used for one century, it is not yet a mature and fully accepted technique due to the absence of solid scientific approaches, significant reliability studies, and international standards. In this paper we present a comprehensive experimentation on the limitations of Craniofacial Superimposition as a forensic identification technique. The study involves different experiments over more than 1 Million comparisons performed by a landmark-based automatic 3D/2D superimposition method. The total sample analyzed consists of 320 subjects and 29 craniofacial landmarks.
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@article{arxiv.2301.09461,
title = {Study on the identification limits of craniofacial superimposition},
author = {Óscar Ibáñez and Enrique Bermejo and Andrea Valsecchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09461},
year = {2023}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures. To be submitted to Scientific Reports