@InProceedings{Hofer:2007:HuIdBa,
author = "Hofer, Michael",
title = "Dental Biometrics: Human Identification Based On Dental Work
Information",
booktitle = "Proceedings...",
year = "2007",
editor = "Falc{\~a}o, Alexandre Xavier and Lopes, H{\'e}lio C{\^o}rtes
Vieira",
organization = "Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 20.
(SIBGRAPI)",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
address = "Los Alamitos",
keywords = "dental biometrics, biometrics, forensic odontology, dental
radiograph, snake.",
abstract = "Dental biometrics is used in forensic dentistry to identify or
verify persons based on their dental radiographs. This paper
presents a method for human identification based on dental work
information. The proposed method works with three main processing
steps: segmentation (feature extraction), creation of a dental
code, and matching. In the segmentation step, seed points of the
dental works are detected by thresholding. The final segmentation
is obtained with a snake (active contour) algorithm. The dental
code is defined from the position (upper or lower), the size of
the dental works, and distance between neighboring dental works.
The matching stage is performed with the Edit distance
(Levenshtein distance). The costs for the insertion, deletion and
substitution operations were adapted to make the matching
algorithm more sensitive. The method was tested on a database
including 68 dental radiographs and the results are encouraging.",
conference-location = "Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil",
conference-year = "7-10 Oct. 2007",
doi = "10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2007.9",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2007.9",
language = "en",
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url = "http://urlib.net/ibi/6qtX3pFwXQZG2LgkFdY/R29Bu",
targetfile = "Hofer-DentalBiometrics.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "2024, Dec. 02"
}