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Feds use software to flesh out skulls

40,000 stiffs await identification
Fri Feb 22 2008, 10:45

THE FBI has developed software to help identify decomposed or burned bodies by reconstructing a person's face from their skull. Traditional techniques take specialist artists two weeks and cost £1,000 a pop, reports the Manchester Grauniad.

The ReFace (Reality Enhancement Facial Approximation by Computational Estimation) system uses a database of CT scans of living people's faces to build the reconstructions. The software is currently undergoing testing at the FBI's counter terrorism and forensic science research unit in Quantico, Virginia.

Some 40,000 unidentified skeletal remains are stored by coroners in the US alone. µ

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