The importance of ground truth: An open-source biometric repository

Morgan J. Tear, Matthew B. Thompson, Jason M. Tangen

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Abstract

Advances in forensic technologies and procedures seek to produce better and more efficient policing for safer societies. Little is understood, however, about how effectively the human forensic professional employs such technologies, or the cognitive and perceptual processes of judgment and decision making the forensic professional engages in during the course of evidence evaluation. For this, experimenters need materials that approximate the realism of crime scene evidence, while ensuring the ground truth about the source of this information. These two goals are often incompatible. We discuss the development of an open-source biometric repository to address the issue of ground truth. This repository contains a range of crime related materials such as fingerprints and palm-prints, shoe-prints, faces, handwriting, voices, and irises. Our goal is to provide a large, open-source repository of forensic information, where certainty of the source in built into the system, to help advance research on identification by humans and technology.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication54th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 2010, HFES 2010
Pages1464-1467
Number of pages4
Volume2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2010
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2010 - San Francisco, United States of America
Duration: 27 Sept 20101 Oct 2010
Conference number: 54th

Conference

ConferenceInternational Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2010
Abbreviated titleHFES 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States of America
CitySan Francisco
Period27/09/101/10/10

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