List of abbreviations
From Glossary of Forensic Document Examination & Pattern Recognition
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- Historical document Imaging and Processing (workshop held in conjuction with ICDAR)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
- 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
