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                            Funding & Awards
 Forensic Science Initiative 2003
Note:
              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              West Virginia University Research Corporation
Award #
              2003-RC-CX-K001
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    Morgantown, WV
Awardee County
              Monongalia
Congressional District
              1
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2003
Total funding (to date)
              $15,459,610
Original Solicitation
              National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2003, $3,250,125)
The overarching goal of this program is to provide product and services of importance to forensic science laboratories and practitioners, to ultimately allow them to enhance the capacity and capabilities of their laboratories and operations.  The Forensic Science Initiative at West Virginia University (WVU FSI) employs funds from this cooperative agreement for program support, and then forwards specific efforts related to: 1) enhancement of the scientific basis of forensic fiber examinations, comparisons and interpretations; 2) employment of hand-held computer devices to increase the productivity of forensic DNA and other laboratory operations; 3) support for a conference on Science & the Law and a conference for Crime Laboratory Directors to improve the knowledge base of stakeholders of, and key leaders in, forensic science, effectuating the utility of forensic results in the criminal justice process; and 4) specific research programs related to fractals and pattern evidence, watermarking databank files, glass database information mining, and advancing forensic computer science.  As a Forensic Resource Network partner, the WVU FSI through these funds will also contribute to the overall goals and mission for this important NIJ-funded consortium.
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Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2004, $3,974,000)
West Virginia University in partnership with the Forensic Resource Network supports state and local crime laboratories in their efforts to establish and maintain the level of quality services demanded by the criminal justice system and the public. This is accomplished by providing innovative solutions to challenges facing the forensic science community through the delivery of technology based training tools, aid in systems support, and quality assurance products. This proposal will include the following projects: FSRC Instrumentation, Cathodoluminescence (CLM), Sagem-Morpho, Wells Start-up, SWGFAST Source Book, Geology & GIS, Process Mapping, mtDNA with UNI, Community Outreach.
nca/ncf
    Supplemental Award 2 (Fiscal Year 2005, $4,286,573)
The purpose of this proposal is for West Virginia University to provide the following support to the forensic community: (1) Start-up research projects for Forensic Biology and Forensic Chemistry Faculty; (2) Economic Impact and Management Studies of the Forensic Sciences; (3) Automated Fingerprint Identification System and Integrated Ballistics Identification Systems Training; (4) Forensic Community Outreach and the Forensic Resource Network/Crime Lab Improvement Program Conference; (5) Friction Ridge Detail Study; (6) Computation Data Mining; (7) Forensic Information Management System; (8) Expansion of Estimating Time Since Deposition of Biological Materials; (9) Fractal Analysis of Patterned Evidence and (10) Presidential DNA Hair Workshops through the President's DNA initiative.
nca/ncf
    Supplemental Award 3 (Fiscal Year 2006, $3,948,912)
The purpose of this proposal is for West Virginia University to provide the following support to the forensic community: (1) The Forensic Science Initiative of WVU will continue to assist the critical needs of state and local forensic science laboratories with various research and development projects. (2) Forensic Post-Docs will develop a model program that will bring together practitioners, research and advanced degreed academics to create a more collaborative approach to the educational experience. (3) FMI Certification will provide a business management program to 40 laboratory managers. (4) Instrumentation for WVU Forensic faculty, researchers and staff; to keep them current with the latest technology. (5) Forensic Community Outreach 2006 programs that will sponsor ASCLD, IAI and other various meetings and conferences. nca/ncf


  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Forensic GIS
                  Estimating postmortem interval using RNA degradation and morphological changes in tooth pulp
                  Interpretation Variance from Forensic Data
                  Managing performance in the forensic sciences: expectations in light of limited budgets
                  Molecular Phylogeny of the Oestroidea
                  A content analysis of fingerprint literature for educational curricula
                  CLIFF: Tool for Solving the Problem of Brittleness in Forensic Models
                  Radio frequency identification devices (RFID) as a means of evidence tracking
                  Combining pores and ridges with minutiae for improved fingerprint verification
                  Feature based RDWT watermarking for multimodal biometric system
                  Forensic discrimination of glass using cathodoluminescence and CIE LAB color coordinates: A feasibility study
                  Framework for biometric match score fusion using statistical and belief models
                  Quality-augmented fusion of level-2 and level-3 fingerprint information using DSm theory
                  Developing a Spatial‐Temporal Method for the Geographic Investigation of Shoeprint Evidence
                  Enhancing security of fingerprints through contextual biometric watermarking
                  An improved method to watermark images sensitive to blocking artifacts
                  Fractal analysis of fingerprints
                  Improving Verification Accuracy by Synthesis of Locally Enhanced Biometric Images and Deformable Model
                  Integrating image quality in 2ν-SVM biometric match score fusion
                  Intelligent biometric information fusion using support vector machine
                  Robust memory-efficient data level information fusion of multi-modal biometric images
                  Dempster-Shafer theory based classifier fusion for improved fingerprint verification performance
                  DS theory based fingerprint classifier fusion with update rule to minimize training time
                  Robust biometric image watermarking for fingerprint and face template protection
                  Textural feature based face recognition for single training images
                  Contextual biometric watermarking of fingerprint images
                  Embedding biometric identifiers in 2D barcodes for improved security

  
Date Created: September 22, 2003
    
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