Open AccessStudy on Accuracy of Judgments by Chinese Fingerprint Examiners
Author(s) -
Shiquan Liu,
Christophe Champod,
Jian Wu,
Yaping Luo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of forensic science and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.132
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2455-0094
pISSN - 2349-5014
DOI - 10.4103/2349-5014.157908
Subject(s) - fingerprint (computing) , psychology , social psychology , applied psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science
The interpretation of fingerprint evidence depends on the judgments of fingerprint examiners. This study assessed the accuracy of different judgments made by fingerprint examiners following the Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation (ACE) process. Each examiner was given five marks for analysis, comparison, and evaluation. We compared the experts′ judgments against the ground truth and used an annotation platform to evaluate how Chinese fingerprint examiners document their comparisons during the identification process. The results showed that different examiners demonstrated different accuracy of judgments and different mechanisms to reach them