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SOCOVIFI is a research project supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación (ref. TIN2006-00829), and by the Andalusian Department of Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa (ref. TIC-1619), including EDRF fundings.

The goal of this project is to design a computer-aided automatic method to assist the forensic anthropologist in the identification task by means of craniofacial superimposition. This method will be based on the use of soft computing techniques.

The aim of this website is twofold:

• On the one hand, to make publicly known the SOCOVIFI project: the corresponding results, publications and researchers involved on it.
• On the other hand, to become a public repository of forensic craniofacial superimposition data for the research community. Of course, having legal aspects into account. We aim to join forces by the collaboration with other forensic experts and labs.

Website structure

The Craniofacial Superimposition link includes information about what is and what does this technique consist of. In SOCOVIFI Project the project description and its goals are presented. Furthermore, it includes information about the research team, collaborators, and also the list of publications derived from the achivements of the project. In Landmark Poll, information is available about a poll we are making among forensic anthropologists in order to determine the location of cephalometric (facial) landmarks. If you are interested in collaborating on it, you will find here all the necessary steps. The Repository link aims to create a craniofacial superimposition forensic dataset publicly available comprised by 3D partial views of skulls, the corresponding reconstructed 3D model, photographs of the person the skull belongs to, craniometric and cephalometric landmark locations, superimposition results detailing the used techniques together with the identification decision, and so on. We expect here the collaboration of the forensic community for the advance of the craniofacial superimposition research field. Finally, in Links, interesting web sites in the field of Forensic Identification by Craniofacial Superimposition are listed.

Website under construction

This website is designed and managed by the SOCOVIFI research team at the European Centre for Soft Computing (Oscar Cordón, Sergio Damas, Oscar Ibáñez and Jose Santamaría). It is maintained by Oscar Ibáñez (oscar.ibanez@softcomputing.es).
The website is permanently under construction. More information and resources will be added in the short future.

 

website last updated: 16th February 2012