Publications by authors named "Cedric Sautier"
Article Synopsis
- Forensic science faces challenges in distinguishing between same-source and different-source hypotheses using various trace evidence, typically approached with Bayesian methods for quantifying evidence.
- This text explores both direct and indirect methods for estimating the likelihoods of distance between traces, highlighting the benefits of indirect methods, including better robustness and the use of vectorial distances to maintain information.
- Empirical evaluations using hand odor profiles demonstrate that indirect methods significantly outperform direct methods in terms of sensitivity, specificity, and robustness, particularly when dimensionality reduction is not applied.
Today, there is a real political urge to see the sharing of ballistic data intensify across Europe mostly due to recent events such as terrorist attacks. However, technical constraints remain and two main options are being discussed. The first one relies on a centralized common database, implying a vendor monopoly for all Europe and a unified protocol among member states.
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