Monday, December 31, 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007
December 2007
December was a busy month since we moved to near the sea from Amsterdam. It is more fresh air, and the view is beautiful. Also some casework had to be finished, however now I finished all casework I had to do this year.
As always many new plans for 2008. The AAFS www.aafs.org in Washington DC which is held in February should be prepared. I have the three presentations ready now. It will be a turbulent year with many changes, as far as I can see now.
As always many new plans for 2008. The AAFS www.aafs.org in Washington DC which is held in February should be prepared. I have the three presentations ready now. It will be a turbulent year with many changes, as far as I can see now.
Sunday, November 04, 2007
November 2007
Last week I had to do an internal recertification for the NFI to sign reports. I had to defend eight reports for a committee with one external expert from the Forensic Science Service in the UK. Since all my reports in Dutch they are translated in English, which takes lots of time before the quality of translation is good enough.
I learned my lessons in the past, and did prepare this meeting in a proper way. I had all the files available, and it is also good to see if the files in archive are correctly, and they where ! I finally passed this exam with good resuls and now I am qualified for another four years unless of course there is a decision from the director or perhaps a change of law. It is good, however too much bureaucracy is involved in my opinion.
Now we are thinking on a new deliverable for FIDIS on camera and person identification. I hope to present some of this in the meeting on Monday.
I learned my lessons in the past, and did prepare this meeting in a proper way. I had all the files available, and it is also good to see if the files in archive are correctly, and they where ! I finally passed this exam with good resuls and now I am qualified for another four years unless of course there is a decision from the director or perhaps a change of law. It is good, however too much bureaucracy is involved in my opinion.
Now we are thinking on a new deliverable for FIDIS on camera and person identification. I hope to present some of this in the meeting on Monday.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
October 2007
This month I started with the FIDIS workshop which appeared to be succesful. Also new ideas for new deliverables, however it is always a question of time if this will succeed. Before I went on vacation I had to finish several cases and write reports since it is important to deliver in the requested time for the trials. So before vacation it is as always busy, finishing some tasks.
Currently three students are working on improving our face comparison tool which is available from www.sourceforge.net face2face and NFI comparator. I am testing the results right now. Furthermore the research on pixel artefacts or Photo Response Non Uniformity of CMOS and CCD sensors appears to have better results then expected.
The vacation is to Turkey and Greece, and it is really nice. We went to İzmır, Van and to Chios and Lesvos. Van was not as touristic anymore, however the lake is beautiful.
Currently three students are working on improving our face comparison tool which is available from www.sourceforge.net face2face and NFI comparator. I am testing the results right now. Furthermore the research on pixel artefacts or Photo Response Non Uniformity of CMOS and CCD sensors appears to have better results then expected.
The vacation is to Turkey and Greece, and it is really nice. We went to İzmır, Van and to Chios and Lesvos. Van was not as touristic anymore, however the lake is beautiful.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
September 2007
September is a busy month as always. This month I am looking forward to the ENFSI www.enfsi.eu Forensic IT working group meeting in Dublin, where I am the chairman of. We just migrated our information to the new website www.enfsimembers.eu . It is always more work then expected, and of course one needs to get used to new user interfaces.
On the 1st October we will organize an event on forensic profiling for www.fidis.net . This was expected for a long time, however now it will work out, since now we have many contributors ranging from the University of Lausanne, to the London School of Economics, University of Leuven and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Forensic profiling as such is a broad topic. However it means for us finding links between evidence by means of searching and linking databases of information. The different aspects from technological to privacy aspects will be handled in this deliverable.
The R&D projects are currently working out well also with a student. On pixel artefacts in cameras we did some new research with a database of cameras. It is nice to see the results, and I hope some if this will be presented at the AAFS in Washington DC.
The projects that I work on for forensic face comparison (comparator and face2face), and defraser for analysis of formats and codecs are now available on www.sourceforge.net . A group of students will work on the software to merge these projects.
Also busy with casework, and for October we have an internal audit where I have to defend eight reports for a committee. This procedure is a kind of internal certification, however it also means work in preparation.
On the 1st October we will organize an event on forensic profiling for www.fidis.net . This was expected for a long time, however now it will work out, since now we have many contributors ranging from the University of Lausanne, to the London School of Economics, University of Leuven and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Forensic profiling as such is a broad topic. However it means for us finding links between evidence by means of searching and linking databases of information. The different aspects from technological to privacy aspects will be handled in this deliverable.
The R&D projects are currently working out well also with a student. On pixel artefacts in cameras we did some new research with a database of cameras. It is nice to see the results, and I hope some if this will be presented at the AAFS in Washington DC.
The projects that I work on for forensic face comparison (comparator and face2face), and defraser for analysis of formats and codecs are now available on www.sourceforge.net . A group of students will work on the software to merge these projects.
Also busy with casework, and for October we have an internal audit where I have to defend eight reports for a committee. This procedure is a kind of internal certification, however it also means work in preparation.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
August 2007
August is a month that many colleagues are on vacation. It is a good month to do some planning, an making new ideas. At the lab, there are some fewer cases, and in some way it is also good to finish reports, and making a good start for the next months to come when it is busy.
Preparing meetings for FIDIS www.fidis.net on forensic profiling, ENFSI www.enfsi.org Forensic IT working group.
Also with MRI scans I wrote on before and the interpretation of them, it appears that different radiologist make different conclusions. It is interesting to see that there is no golden standard on these things yet.
Preparing meetings for FIDIS www.fidis.net on forensic profiling, ENFSI www.enfsi.org Forensic IT working group.
Also with MRI scans I wrote on before and the interpretation of them, it appears that different radiologist make different conclusions. It is interesting to see that there is no golden standard on these things yet.
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