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2025 NIJ Forensic Research and Development Symposium: Anthropology (Session 2)

The Forensic Technology Center of Excellence assisted the National Institute of Justice in hosting the annual NIJ Forensic Science Research and Development Symposium on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at the 77th Annual American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. This video is one of five recorded sessions from the event. 

Presentations include - 

  • Optimizing Bruise Detection in Forensic Imaging: A Comparative Analysis of Object Detection Models Mehrdad Ghyabi, George Mason University
  • Using Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning for Human Decomposition Staging; Audris Mockus, University of Tennessee,
  • Knoxville Deep Learning Empowers Fine-Grained Population Affinity Estimation with Craniometric Data; Jinyong Pang, University of South Florida
  • Is Decedent Residual Odor Detectable by Human Remains Detection (HRD) Canines and Analytical Chemistry?; Dawnie Steadman and Mary Cablk, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Date Published: February 13, 2025