The size, shape, and physical characteristics of the human skull are distinct when considering individual humans. In anthropology, accurate management collections is crucial for storing maintaining in a cost-effective manner. For example, labeling skulls inaccurately or attaching printed labels to can affect authenticity collections. Given multiple issues associated with manual identification s...

2. CoPI. Andrea Bender, Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany (Germany) 3. CoPI. James Boster, Anthropology, University of Connecticut (Amazonia, Peru) 4. CoPI. Victor DeMunck, Anthropology, SUNY La Paltz (Lithuania) 5. CoPI. John Gatewood, Anthropology, Lehigh University (Pennsylvania, US) 6. CoPI. Eric Jones, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, (Ecuador) 7. CoPI. Stephen Lyons, ...

Different tasks in forensic anthropology require the use of three-dimensional models of forensic objects (skulls, bones, corpses, etc) captured by 3D range scanners. Since a whole object cannot be completely scanned with a single image, multiple scans from different views are needed to supply the information to construct the 3D model. Range image registration methods study the accurate integrat...