Computational Forensics

1. Front Matter

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2. Trends and Challenges

   1. Computational Forensics: An Overview

      • Katrin Franke, Sargur N. Srihari

      Pages 1-10

   2. Computational Methods for Determining Individuality

      • Sargur N. Srihari, Chang Su

      Pages 11-21

3. Scanner, Printer, and Prints

   1. Survey of Scanner and Printer Forensics at Purdue University

      • Nitin Khanna, Aravind K. Mikkilineni, George T. -C. Chiu, Jan P. Allebach, Edward J. Delp

      Pages 22-34

   2. Evaluation of Graylevel-Features for Printing Technique Classification in High-Throughput Document Management Systems

      • Christian Schulze, Marco Schreyer, Armin Stahl, Thomas M. Breuel

      Pages 35-46

   3. Document Signature Using Intrinsic Features for Counterfeit Detection

      • Joost van Beusekom, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breuel

      Pages 47-57

4. Human Identification

   1. Automatic Feature Extraction from 3D Range Images of Skulls

      • Lucia Ballerini, Marcello Calisti, Oscar Cordón, Sergio Damas, Jose Santamaría

      Pages 58-69

   2. 3D Processing and Visualization of Scanned Forensic Data

      • Alexander Ehlert, Dirk Bartz

      Pages 70-83

   3. Person Identification Based on Barefoot 3D Sole Shape

      • Michael Hild

      Pages 84-95

5. Shoeprints

   1. Computerized Matching of Shoeprints Based on Sole Pattern

      • Rui Xiao, Pengfei Shi

      Pages 96-104

   2. Shoe-Print Extraction from Latent Images Using CRF

      • Veshnu Ramakrishnan, Manavender Malgireddy, Sargur N. Srihari

      Pages 105-112

6. Linguistics

   1. Finding Identity Group “Fingerprints” in Documents

      • Lashon B. Booker

      Pages 113-121

   2. Supporting Law Enforcement in Digital Communities through Natural Language Analysis

      • Danny Hughes, Paul Rayson, James Walkerdine, Kevin Lee, Phil Greenwood, Awais Rashid et al.

      Pages 122-134

   3. An Intelligent System for Semantic Information Retrieval Information from Textual Web Documents

      • Mukundan Karthik, Mariappan Marikkannan, Arputharaj Kannan

      Pages 135-146

7. Decision Making and Search

   1. Support of Interviewing Techniques in Physical Access Control Systems

      • Svetlana N. Yanushkevich, Oleg Boulanov, Adrian Stoica, Vlad P. Shmerko

      Pages 147-158

   2. Application of q-Gram Distance in Digital Forensic Search

      • Slobodan Petrović, Sverre Bakke

      Pages 159-168

8. Speech Analysis

   1. Similarity Visualization for the Grouping of Forensic Speech Recordings

      • Klara A. Weiand, Jos S. Bouten, Cor J. Veenman

      Pages 169-180

   2. Handwritten Signature and Speech: Preliminary Experiments on Multiple Source and Classifiers for Personal Identity Verification

      • Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo, Mario Refice

      Pages 181-191

9. Signatures and Handwriting

   1. Signature Verification Using a Bayesian Approach

      • Sargur N. Srihari, Kamal Kuzhinjedathu, Harish Srinivasan, Chen Huang, Danjun Pu

      Pages 192-203

   2. Stroke-Morphology Analysis Using Super-Imposed Writing Movements

      • Katrin Franke

      Pages 204-217

This Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume contains the papers presented at the Second International Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF 2008), held August 7–8, 2008. It was a great honor for the organizers to host this scienti?c event at the renowned National Academy of Sciences: Keck Center in Washington, DC, USA. Computational Forensics is an emerging research domain focusing on the investigation of forensic problems using computational methods. Its primary goalis the discoveryand advancement of forensicknowledgeinvolving modeling, computer simulation, and computer-based analysis and recognition in studying and solving forensic problems. The Computational Forensics workshop series is intended as a forum for researchers and practitioners in all areas of computational and forensic sciences. This forum discusses current challenges in computer-assisted forensic investi- tions and presents recent progress and advances. IWCF addresses a broad spectrum of forensic disciplines that use computer tools for criminal investigation. This year’s edition covers presentations on c- putational methods for individuality studies, computer-based3D processing and analysis of skulls and human bodies, shoe print preprocessing and analysis, n- ural language analysis and information retrieval to support law enforcement, analysis and group visualization of speech recordings, scanner and print device forensics, and computer-based questioned document and signature analysis.

• access control systems
• automatic feature extraction
• biometric
• classification
• computational forensics
• counterfeit detection
• fingerprint
• fingerprints
• forensic data
• high-throughput
• identification
• law enforcement
• natural language
• shoeprints
• web mining

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