2015
Dr. Daniel Ott
Dallas, TX
In the field of firearm identification, there is a fundamental challenge to report the error rate associated with cartridge case and bullet comparisons in order to prove the validity of such comparisons in court. Recent work at NIST has sought to address this challenge by developing a robust, automatic image and topographic identification algorithm called the Congruent Matching Cell (CMC) method. The objective is to establish a procedure for defining the robustness of a reported error rate that is derived from a particular experimental data set.