Is characterizing the digital forensic facial reconstruction with hair necessary? A familiar assessors' analysis

dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.creatorFernandes, Clemente Maia S.
dc.creatorPereira, Frederico David Alencar de Sena
dc.creatorda Silva, Jorge Vicente Lopes
dc.creatorSerra, Mônica da Costa
dc.date2014-05-27T11:28:58Z
dc.date2016-10-25T18:47:37Z
dc.date2014-05-27T11:28:58Z
dc.date2016-10-25T18:47:37Z
dc.date2013-04-24
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-06T02:21:15Z
dc.date.available2017-04-06T02:21:15Z
dc.identifierForensic Science International.
dc.identifier0379-0738
dc.identifier1872-6283
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/75154
dc.identifierhttp://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/11449/75154
dc.identifier10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.03.036
dc.identifierWOS:000318913300037
dc.identifier2-s2.0-84876355236
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.03.036
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/895901
dc.descriptionBackground: In the international scientific literature, there are few studies that emphasize the presence or absence of hair in forensic facial reconstructions. There are neither Brazilian studies concerning digital facial reconstructions without hair, nor research comparing recognition tests between digital facial reconstructions with hair and without hair. The miscegenation of Brazilian people is considerable. Brazilian people, and, in particular, Brazilian women, even if considered as Caucasoid, may present the hair in very different ways: curly, wavy or straight, blonde, red, brown or black, long or short, etc. For this reason, it is difficult to find a correct type of hair for facial reconstruction (unless, in real cases, some hair is recovered with the skeletal remains). Aims and methods: This study focuses on the performance of three different digital forensic facial reconstructions, without hair, of a Brazilian female subject (based on one international database and two Brazilian databases for soft facial-tissue thickness) and evaluates the digital forensic facial reconstructions comparing them to photographs of the target individual and nine other subjects, employing the recognition method. A total of 22 assessors participated in the recognition process; all of them were familiar with the 10 individuals who composed the face pool. Results and conclusions: The target subject was correctly recognized by 41% of the 22 examiners in the International Pattern, by 32% in the Brazilian Magnetic Resonance Pattern and by 32% in the Brazilian Fresh Cadavers Pattern. The facial reconstructions without hair were correctly recognized using the three databases of facial soft-tissue thickness. The observed results were higher than the results obtained using facial reconstructions with hair, from the same skull, which can indicate that it is better to not use hair, at least when there is no information concerning its characteristics. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
dc.languageeng
dc.relationForensic Science International
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectDigital forensic facial reconstruction
dc.subjectForensic anthropology
dc.subjectForensic dentistry
dc.subjectForensic facial reconstruction
dc.subjectHuman identification
dc.subjectLegal medicine
dc.titleIs characterizing the digital forensic facial reconstruction with hair necessary? A familiar assessors' analysis
dc.typeOtro


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