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# ITL Forensic Science Program

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## Summary

Forensic science provides one of the basic structural elements of the U.S. criminal justice system. It provides the methodologies for understanding crime scenes, analyzing evidence, identifying suspects, and prosecuting and convicting criminals while exonerating innocent people.

The ITL Forensic Science program advances the measurements and standards infrastructure for forensic science through the application of computer science, mathematics, and statistics.

## Description

The principal goals of the Program are to develop standards, measurement methods, tests, validation studies, and technology to:
                  - Better understand and improve the accuracy and reliability of forensic science.
                  - Provide scientifically validated bases for forensic methods and standards.
                  - Establish measures of uncertainty for forensic analyses.
                  - Develop automated comuting methods for forensic analyses and research.
                  - Enhance the usability and interoperability of forensic systems.

**Of Interest**

Cloud Computing Forensic Science Workshop, March 24, 2014 at NIST.

NIST Forensics Portal

Forensics@NIST 2012 Symposium, November 28-30, 2012 at NIST.NIST and Dutch Agency Team to Improve Forensic ScienceANSI/NIST-ITL Standard Workshop 2013Bringing the Forensic Sciences into Focus

Forensic ScienceDigital evidenceInformation technology

## Organizations

                          - NIST Headquarters
                            - Laboratory Programs
                              - Information Technology Laboratory

## Contact

                    -  Martin Herman  martin.herman@nist.gov      (301) 975-2788   

## Project Status

## Other Projects

**HUMAN IDENTITY**

Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

Face Recognition Research and Testing

Speaker Recognition Evaluation

Human Assisted Speaker Recognition Evaluation

Voice Biometrics

ANSI/NIST-ITL Standard for Interchange of Biometric Data

Conformance Testing for Biometric Interchange Formats

Biometric Image Sample Quality

Chemical and Biometric Field Analysis of Fingerprints

Effects of Image Compression on Fingerprint Imagery

Manipulation and Enhancements of Forensic ImagesBiometric Web Services

Tattoo Recognition

Odontology

**DIGITAL FORENSICS**

Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT)

National Software Reference Library (NSRL)

Computer Forensic Reference Data Sets (CFReDS)

Cloud Forensics

Malware Incident Prevention and Handling

Network Forensics

**MULTIMEDIA FORENSICS**

Surveillance Event Detection

Multimedia Event Detection

Instance Search

Content-based Copy Detection

Semantic Indexing

Forensic Image Examination Rating Scale (FIERS)

**BALLISTICS**

National Ballistics Evidence Search Engine

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301-975-2000

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