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Boyd Baumgartner
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Forensics@NIST

Post by Boyd Baumgartner »

Did anyone listen to the Forensics@NIST conference last week? There was a lot on likelihood ratios (L/R) and how to go about developing them?

I found this talk (Start at 1:13:00) by Elham Tabassi the most interesting with a few points of discussion:


The distilled takeaways are:

The factors feeding the priors are:
  • # of minutiae
  • clarity
  • pattern type
  • quality
  • age or gender
The point at which L/R's are most needed (complex latents), they become the least powerful because of the factors that feed the priors.

Is anyone tracking in their LIMS when they encounter a complex print?
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