Difference between revisions of "List of abbreviations"

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The aim of this list of abbreviations [1] is to include all notable abbreviations used forensic science, in alphabetical order.

A

AAFS

American Academy of Forensic Science

ABFDE

American Board of Forensic Document Examiners

AFHA

Automated Forensic Handwriting Analysis (workshop held in conjuction with ICDAR)

ANZFSS

Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society

ASCLD/LAB

American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors / Laboratory Accreditation Board

ASQDE

American Society of Questioned Document Examiners

ASR

Automatic Speech Recognition

ASTM

American Society for Testing and Materials International

B

BKA

Bundeskriminalamt (Germany)

C

CBSA

Canada Border Services Agency

CFS

Centre of Forensic Sciences (Toronto, Canada)

CSFS

Canadian Society of Forensic Science

CS

Creative Suite (Adobe software)

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

D

DHS

Department of Homeland Security (USA)

DPI

Dots Per Inch

E

EDD

Electrostatic Detection Device (see ESDA)

EDEWG

European Document Experts Working Group

ENFHEX

European Network of Forensic Handwriting Examiners

ENFSI

European Network of Forensic Science Intitutes

ESDA

Electrostatic Detection Apparatus (see EDD)

F

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA)

FDE

Forensic Document Examiner, Forensic Document Examination

FHE

Forensic Handwriting Examiner, Forensic Handwriting Examination

FSNI

Forensic Science Northern Ireland

FSS

Forensic Science Service (UK)

FSSoc

Forensic Science Society (UK)

G

GFS

Gesellschaft für Forensische Schriftuntersuchung (Germany)

GSC

features corresponding to Gradient, Structural and Concavity attributes, which are used in automatic character recognition for interpreting handwritten postal addresses were used as micro-features.

H

HIP

Historical document Imaging and Processing (workshop held in conjuction with ICDAR)

HMM

Hidden Markov Model

HSI

Homeland Security Investigations

HSI

Hyperspectral Imaging

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

I

IAI

International Association for Identification

IAPR

Interational Association for Pattern Recognition

ICDAR

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USA)

ICFHR

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition

ICPR

International Conference on Pattern Recognition

IPES

Impression and Pattern Evidence Symposium, held August 2–5, 2010, in Clearwater Beach, Florida (USA)

IRS

Internal Revenue Service (USA)

J

K

L

LKA

Landeskriminalamt (Germany)

LPI

Lines Per Inch

LSJML

Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale (Montréal, Canada)

M

MICR

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

N

NFI

Netherlands Forensic Institute

NIP

Non-Impact Printing

O

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

OSV

Online Signature Verification

P

PDF

Portable Document Format

Q

QA

Quality Assurance

QC

Quality Control

QM

Quality Manual

QSI

Quality System Instruction (equivalent to SOP)

QSP

Quality System Procedure

R

RCMP

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

S

SOP

Standard Operating Procedure (equivalent to QSI)

SWGDE

Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence

SWGDOC

Scientific Working Group for Forensic Document Examination

SWGIT

Scientific Working Group on Imaging Technology

T

TEI

Text Encoding Initiative

TWGDOC

Technical Working Group for Questioned Documents (now called SWGDOC)

U

USPIS

United States Postal Inspection Service

USSS

United States Secret Service

V

VSC

Video Spectral Comparator

W

X

XML

Extensible Markup Language

Y

Z