Identification of sex using lip prints : A clinical study

Lip prints: an identification aid.

BACKGROUND Lip prints are the normal lines and furrows in the form of wrinkles and grooves present in the human lip between the inner labial mucosa and outer skin having certain individual characteristics like fingerprints. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to highlight the importance of lip prints in sex determination related to forensic investigation for identification. METHODS Study was...

Lip prints – an aid in identification

Relationship of thumb prints and lip prints among Nigerians

Establishment of association between two variables in the forensic science is of paramount importance. The study was aimed to determine association of lip prints types and left thumb prints among Nigerians. A total of 820 subjects (414 male and 406 female) participated in the study. The lip prints were obtained on microscopic glass slide and developed using carbon black powder. For finger print...

Study of Lip Prints among the Population of Marathi Community

Lip print: The science under which lip prints study referred as Cheiloscopy. Establishing a person’s identity is a very important process in civil and criminal cases. . Lip prints help in personal identification and criminal investigation is very much important as his evidence would be very much useful in law and justice. Dental identification, fingerprint and DNA comparisons are probably the m...

Feature Extraction of Human Lip Prints

Methods have been used for identification of human by recognizing lip prints. Human lips have a number of elevation and depressions features called lip prints and examination of lip prints is referred to as cheiloscopy. Lip prints of each human being are unique in nature like many others features of human. In this paper lip print is first smoothened using a Gaussian Filter. Next Sobel Edge Dete...