Forensic vs. Computing writing features as seen by Rex, the intuitive document retriever
Vlad Atanasiu · 2011
The paper reveals the superfi cial matching between script features as understood by forensic experts and computer scientists and advocates the development of computational instru- ments tailored to fifeatures traditionally used by the forensic community. In particular, and including other areas of grapho- nomics and the general public, there exists a demand for software for the analysis of intuitive features, think slant or roundness, as opposed to analytical features, like Fourier transform or en- tropy. Rex, a software with such a capability, is introduced and used to explore the potentialities of this approach for script foren- sics. An investigation of properties of the script contour orienta- tion, the feature used by Rex, is also presented.