Workshops:

Forensic Digital Evidence: Current and Prospective Scientific and Legal Issues

Monday, February 21, 2005

Forensic Image and Video Processing

Monday, February 21, 2005

SWGIT Presents: Guidelines for Acquiring, Processing, Analyzing, and Archiving Video and Image Data

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Scientific Sessions (Jurisprudence):

Thursday

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. E1 Digital Evidence and Expert Testimony - Applying Rule 702 to The Digital World

Mark M. Pollitt, MS*

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. E2 Poking the Wookie: The Chewbacca Defense in Digital Evidence Cases

Erin E. Kenneally, MFS, JD*; Anjali R. Swienton, MFS, JD*

9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. E3 Identity Theft: The Tools of The Trade
Paul L. Singer, JD*

Scientific Sessions (General):

Thursday

Multidisciplinary Session: Engineering Sciences/General Sections Panel: Digital and Multimedia Evidence - Computer Forensics

9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. D11 The History of the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence and the New Forensic Science Discipline for Evidence

Carrie M. Whitcomb, MSFS*

General

9:20 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. D12 The Rationale for International Certification for Digital Evidence Professionals

Carrie M. Whitcomb, MSFS*

9:40 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. D13 Digital Evidence Forensic Education: Computers, Forensics, and the Future

Mark M. Pollitt, MS*

10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. D14 Identification of Known Files on Computer Systems

Douglas White*; Michael Ogata

Multidisciplinary Session: Engineering Sciences/General Sections Panel: Digital and Multimedia Evidence - Video and Image Analysis

10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. D15 Validation Results From the European Project FEARID on Forensic Ear Print Identification

10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. D16 Accurate Forensic Video Superimposition Through Computational 2-D to 3-D Multi-View Registration (Towards Computational Techniques for Image-Shape Based Cranial/Facial Comparison)

Lenny Rudin, PhD*

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. C17 Facial Comparison of Persons Using Non-Standardized Image Material

Arnout C. Ruifrok, PhD*; Ivo Alberink, PhD; Mirelle I. Goos, MSc;

Jurrien Bijhold, PhD

11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. C18 Body Length Estimation From Surveillance Video: Procedures and Validation

Bart Hoogeboom, MS*; Ivo Alberink, PhD; Mirelle I. Goos, MS; Derk Vrijdag, MS;
Jurrien Bijhold, PhD

11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. D17 Extracting Forensic Information From Biometric Devices

Zeno J. Geradts, PhD*; Arnout C. Ruifrok, PhD; Jurrien Bijhold, PhD

11:50 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. D18 Photographic Comparison of a U.S. Army Camouflage Uniform Cap/Uniform, Using the Manufacturing Process, a Sample Study to Include Statistics

Carl R. Kriigel, BS*

Multidisciplinary Session: Engineering Sciences/General Sections Panel: Digital and Multimedia Evidence - Video and Image Analysis

1:15 p.m. - 1:35 p.m. D26 The Comprehensive Masonic CHIP Program (Child Identification): A Comprehensive Forensic Tool

David B. Harte, DMD*

1:35 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. D27 Debunking a ‘Snuff Film’ by Locating Its Source

William R. Oliver, MD*

1:50 p.m. - 2:05 p.m. D28 A Presentation of JLab: Restoring Selected Examples of Corrupt JPEG Data

Stefan W. Ott; Bernd Rieger*

2:05 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. D29 Analysis and Visualization of Defective Digital Image Data

Stefan W. Ott*

Multidisciplinary Session: Engineering Sciences/General Sections Panel: Digital and Multimedia Evidence - Video and Image Analysis

2:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. D30 Analysis of an Image Anomaly in the Space Shuttle Columbia Accident, Part 1: Authenticating the Camera Source

Richard W. Vorder Bruegge, PhD*; Peter Goldie, PhD

2:50 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. D31 Analysis of an Image Anomaly in the Space Shuttle Columbia Accident, Part 2: Determining the Source

Richard W. Vorder Bruegge, PhD*; Peter Goldie, PhD

3:10 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. C19 Questions About the Integrity and Authenticity of Digital Images: A Review of Case Reports From the Netherlands Forensic Institute

Zeno Geradts, PhD*; Derk Vrijdag, BSc; Ivo Alberink, PhD; Mirelle I. Goos, MSc
Arnout Ruifrok, PhD

3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. D32 Progress Report on the Study of Photographic Technology Used to Document Footwear Impressions

Herbert L. Blitzer, AB, MBA*; Jack L. Jacobia*

Multidisciplinary Session: Engineering Sciences/General Sections Panel: Digital and Multimedia Evidence - Forensic Audio

4:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. C20 Preserving Audio Quality When Converting Digital Audio File Formats

Kenneth W. Marr, BSEE, MS*; David J. Snyder III, BSET*

4:20 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. D33 Crosscorrelation-Based Pulse Suppression for Forensic Audio Analysis

Robert Dunn, MS; Thomas Quatieri, PhD*; Reva Schwartz, MA; Michael Piper, BA

4:40 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. C21 Case Study - Imaging the Memory of a Digital Audio Recorder

Kenneth W. Marr, BSEE, MS*; David J. Snyder, BSET; Jeffrey Edwards, BSEE, MSEE