The IACI conference in Liverpool has been postponed to July 2022 due to the continued pandemic. However, we will be hosting a one-day online symposium as an IACI taster event on 23 July 2021.
The theme of the event:
‘Race and Face: bias in forensic and archaeological investigation’
Keynote speakers:
There will be an online poster event and the opportunity for some short presentations on any of the following topics:
Facial identification of the dead
The theme of the event:
‘Race and Face: bias in forensic and archaeological investigation’
Keynote speakers:
- Race and Forensic Investigation -Prof Amade M’Charek, University of Amsterdam
- Race and Super-recognisers -Professor Josh Davis, University of Greenwich
- Race and Forensic Genetics -Dr David Skinner, Anglia Ruskin University
- Historical ethnographic craniofacial collections - Dr Tobias Houlton, University of Dundee
- Race and Facial Recognition Algorithms -Dr Jonathon Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Technology Laboratory
There will be an online poster event and the opportunity for some short presentations on any of the following topics:
Facial identification of the dead
- Facial reconstruction/approximation
- Craniofacial anatomy
- Craniofacial superimposition
- Depiction of preserved remains for museum exhibition
- Ethical issues relating to the presentation of faces of the dead
- DNA analysis for facial depiction of skeletal remains
- Migrant disaster victim identification
- CGI and animation
- Age progression
- Eyewitness composites
- DNA-to-face
- Facial recognition
- CCTV analysis
- Facial morphing and deep fakes