Computational Forensics

This Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume contains the papers presented at the Second International Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF 2008), held August 78, 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.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop, IWCF 2008, held in Washington, DC, USA, August 2008.

The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on trends and challenges; scanner, printer, and prints; human identification; shoeprints; linguistics;decision making and search; speech analysis; signatures and handwriting.

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Trends and Challenges.- Computational Forensics: An Overview.- Computational Methods for Determining Individuality.- Scanner, Printer, and Prints.- Survey of Scanner and Printer Forensics at Purdue University.- Evaluation of Graylevel-Features for Printing Technique Classification in High-Throughput Document Management Systems.- Document Signature Using Intrinsic Features for Counterfeit Detection.- Human Identification.- Automatic Feature Extraction from 3D Range Images of Skulls.- 3D Processing and Visualization of Scanned Forensic Data.- Person Identification Based on Barefoot 3D Sole Shape.- Shoeprints.- Computerized Matching of Shoeprints Based on Sole Pattern.- Shoe-Print Extraction from Latent Images Using CRF.- Linguistics.- Finding Identity Group Fingerprints in Documents.- Supporting Law Enforcement in Digital Communities through Natural Language Analysis.- An Intelligent System for Semantic Information Retrieval Information from Textual Web Documents.- Decision Making and Search.- Support of Interviewing Techniques in Physical Access Control Systems.- Application of q-Gram Distance in Digital Forensic Search.- Speech Analysis.- Similarity Visualization for the Grouping of Forensic Speech Recordings.- Handwritten Signature and Speech: Preliminary Experiments on Multiple Source and Classifiers for Personal Identity Verification.- Signatures and Handwriting.- Signature Verification Using a Bayesian Approach.- Stroke-Morphology Analysis Using Super-Imposed Writing Movements.- Invariants Discretization for Individuality Representation in Handwritten Authorship.