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Nov 11, 2009 | Volume 3, Issue 45 Subscribe | Advertising Services | Contact Us

Microsoft’s Photosynth: A Future Forensic Tool?
By Eugene Liscio
First responders, forensic technicians, and investigators could quickly gather a large number of overlapping photographs without the need for special targets, expensive equipment, or complicated software, and then use Photosynth to find the common features between the photos and how each of the photos are oriented with respect to one another in 3D space.
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FORENSIC NEWS
  • Case May Turn On Tossed Test
    A Huntsville man charged with manslaughter in a deadly 2005 wreck wants the crime lab results of his blood alcohol test thrown out because the sample was destroyed before the defense could do its own tests.
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  • Local DNA Lab Comes With Hefty Price Tagp
    The Beaufort County Sherriff’s Office is pushing to open its own crime lab to bypass backlogs and restrictions on samples analyzed, but control comes at a price.
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  • County Could Benefit From Local Pathologist
    No board certified forensic pathologist practices in the Four Corners region and autopsies are conducted 180 miles away. No toxicology lab exists locally, either. San Juan County would need both a pathologist and toxicology lab to make the forensic process as efficient as possible.
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  • EPIC School for Evidence Photographers in Nashville
    Evidence photographers will head to Nashville, TN, this January for training and certification from the traveling EPIC (Evidence Photographers International Council) School.
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  • Also in the News…
    2010 Impression & Pattern Evidence Symposium: Call for Abstracts
    Thousands of Innocent Welsh People Still On Police DNA Database
    Bombings Place Unique Burden on Iraq’s 1st DNA Lab

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