Forensic Sciences

Forensic sciences.

As part of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences’ natural, mathematical, and biomedical sciences programs, forensic sciences provides an understanding of the integration of forensic disciplines with the investigation of criminal activity, while providing an overview of the analytical methods, procedures, equipment, and data used by forensic specialists. Coursework emphasizes the identifica...

Biosensors in forensic sciences

A biosensor is a device that uses biological materials to detect and monitor the presence of specific chemicals in an area. Traditional methods of volatile detection used by law enforcement agencies and rescue teams typically consist of reliance on canine olfaction. This concept of using dogs to detect specific substances is quite old. However, dogs have some limitations such as cost of trainin...

Vocal Forgery in Forensic Sciences

This article describes techniques of vocal forgery able to affect automatic speaker recognition system in a forensic context. Vocal forgery covers two main aspects: voice transformation and voice conversion. Concerning voice transformation, this article proposes an automatic analysis of four specific disguised voices in order to detect the forgery and, for voice conversion, different ways to au...

American Academy of Forensic Sciences

Forensic Digital and Multimedia Sciences

ion and access in digital forensics, and how the two taxonomies are related. This presentation will impact the forensic community by introducing the digital forensic community to the theories and approaches utilized in the natural language processing community. Since the second World War, computer scientists and others have struggled to find computational methods to translate, understand, and m...