Reconsideration of Bertillonage in the age of digitalisation: Digital anthropometric patterns as a promising method for establishing identity

The idea of using measurements of the human body for identity matching is deeply associated with Bertillonage, a historic biometric system that was briefly applied until it was superseded by fingerprinting in the early 20th century. The apparent failure then commonly causes doubt with regard to the...

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Main Authors: Marie L. Heuschkel, Dirk Labudde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-01-01
Series:Forensic Science International: Synergy
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589871X23001390