HAC2 Automated Facial Approximation of Unidentified Human Skulls

The  issue of unidentified remains that cannot be traced back to their families or  communities is an increasing humanitarian concern. Forensic facial  reconstruction given a skull can be employed to support the identification of  unidentified human remains. The aim of this research is to explore the  possibility of using recent computer vision techniques, more specifically  image-to-image translation models, to predict the 2D facial image of a human  from their skull image. This by no means will be considered as a tool for  identity confirmation but rather to generate leads to the possible identity.  The document describes the problem definition in connection to existing  computer vision models, the proposed solution, and the basic challenges.

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_{Credits Main Image: ICRC./ Aleksander Imedashvili / 14.09.2016/ Tbilisi, Levan Samkharauli National Forensics Bureau}