| June 4, 2013 |
| 8:30 - 9:00 AM | Registration: NIST Lecture Room A, Building 101 |
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM | WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS - John Paul Jones II, Program Manager, Law Enforcement Standards Office (OLES), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Heather Waltke, Associate Director, Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences, National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
- Ted Burkes, Scientific Working Group on Forensic Document Examinations (SWGDOC) Chair, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Jane Lewis, American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Questioned Documents (QD) Section Director and Private Examiner
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| 9:30 - 10:15 AM | CURRENT STATE OF HANDWRITING ANALYSIS Forensic Handwriting Examinations: The Progression to our Current State |
| 10:15 - 10:30 AM | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 PM | FOUNDATIONAL SCIENCE BEHIND HANDWRITING
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| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch: On Your Own in NIST Cafeteria |
| 1:00 - 2:30 PM | REPRODUCIBILITY AND RELIABILITY STUDIES
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| 2:30 - 2:45 PM | Break |
| 2:45 - 5:00 PM | ADVANCES IN MEASUREMENT SCIENCE IN HANDWRITING ANALYSIS | Introduction to Quantitative Systems for Forensic Handwriting Comparisons - JoAnn Buscaglia, PhD, Research Chemist, FBI
WANDA: A Measurement Tool for Forensic Document Examiners - Katrin Franke, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Digital Forensics and Cybercrime Investigation Laboratory at Gjøvik University College
The Forensic Language-Independent Analysis System for Handwriting Identification (FLASH ID) - Mark Walch, President CEO, Gannon Technologies Group, and Donald Gantz, PhD, Statistician, George Mason University
CEDAR FOX and iFOX - Sargur Srihari, PhD, Professor, SUNY – Buffalo
D-Scribe - Matthias Schulte-Austum, Siemens AG, Senior Software Development Engineer and Siemens Key Expert Pattern Recognition
Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT): Writer Recognition by Computer Vision - Jeffrey P. Woodard, PhD, Researcher, The MITRE Corporation
Moderated by JoAnn Buscaglia, PhD, Research Chemist, FBI |
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| June 5, 2013 |
| 8:30 - 9:00 AM | Registration: NIST Lecture Room A, Building 101 |
| 9:00 - 10:30 AM | ADVANCES IN STATISTICS FOR HANDWRITING ANALYSIS #1 | Trends in Frequency Occurrence of Handwriting and Hand Printing Characteristics - Thomas W. Vastrick, Forensic Document Examiner
Error, Confidence and (Un)certainty – Deconstructing Authorship Opinions Using a Forced-Call Testing Protocol - Brent Ostrum, Senior Forensic Document Examiner, Canada Border Services Agency
Understanding Individuality of Handwriting Using Score-Based Likelihood Ratios - Christopher Saunders, PhD, Mathematical Statistician, South Dakota State University
The Development of Individual Handwriting Characteristics and the Statistical Evaluation of Different Combination Likelihoods of These Individual Characteristics - Lisa Hanson, Forensic Document Examiner, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Laboratory
Moderated by John Paul Jones II, Program Manager, NIST |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 AM | Break |
| 10:45 - 11:30 PM | ADVANCES IN STATISTICS FOR HANDWRITING ANALYSIS #2 | Handwriting Evidence Evaluation Based on the Shape of Characters: Application of Multivariate Likelihood Ratios - Raymond Marquis, PhD, Institute of Forensic Science, University of Lausanne
Statistical Basis to Determine Probabilities of Occurrence of Handwriting Characteristics - Kirsten Singer, Forensic Document Examiner, D-ABFDE, Department of Veteran Affairs, OIG
- Sargur Srihari, PhD, Professor, SUNY – Buffalo
Moderated by Jane Lewis, AAFS-QD Section Director, Private Examiner |
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| 11:30 - 12:30 PM | LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF QUANTITATIVE TESTIMONY |
| 12:30 - 1:30 PM | Lunch: On Your Own in NIST Cafeteria |
| 1:30 - 2:45 PM | OTHER ANALYSIS TOOLS TO SUPPORT METRICS | Using the Statistical Functions of Write-On2 Software to Assess Natural Variation in Handwriting - Brian Lindblom, Forensic Document Examiner, Document Examination Consultants, Inc., Ottawa Canada
Scanned Images: How Well Do They Depict the Subtle Features in Handwriting? - Janet Fenner Masson, Forensic Document Examiner
Current Bank Check Scanning Practices - Jane Lewis, AAFS-QD Section Director, Private Examiner
Moderated by Kirsten Singer, FDE, D-ABFDE, Department of Veteran Affairs, OIG |
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| 2:45 - 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 - 4:30 PM | FACILITATED DISCUSSION - What does the future state of handwriting analysis look like?
- What are the barriers to implementing the future state?
- What does a roadmap to achieve the future state look like?
| Facilitated by John Paul Osborn, Forensic Document Examiner, Osborn & Son, and Rigo Vargas, Questioned Documents Section Chief, Mississippi Crime Laboratory Knowledge Capture by SAIC and John Paul Jones II |
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| 4:30 PM | MEETING SUMMARY AND NEXT STEPS |