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  2. Alphonse Bertillon - Wikipedia

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    Alphonse Bertillon (French: [bɛʁtijɔ̃]; 22 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements.

  3. Soft biometrics - Wikipedia

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    Soft biometrics traits are physical, behavioural or adhered human characteristics, classifiable in pre–defined human compliant categories. These categories are, unlike in the classical biometric case, established and time–proven by humans with the aim of differentiating individuals.

  4. Dreyfus affair - Wikipedia

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    Alphonse Bertillon, an eccentric criminologist who was not an expert in handwriting, was presented as a scholar of the first importance. He advanced the theory of "autoforgery" during the trial and accused Dreyfus of imitating his own handwriting, explaining the differences in writing by using extracts of writing from his brother Matthieu and ...

  5. History of anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from "The Speaking Portrait" (Pearson's Magazine, Vol XI, January to June 1901) demonstrating the principles of Bertillon's anthropometry. In 1883, Frenchman Alphonse Bertillon introduced a system of identification that was named after him. The "Bertillonage" system was based on the finding that several measures of physical ...

  6. Handwriting - Wikipedia

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    Handwriting includes both block and cursive styles and is separate from generic and formal handwriting script/style, calligraphy or typeface. Because each person's handwriting is unique and different, it can be used to verify a document's writer. [1] The deterioration of a person's handwriting is also a symptom or result of several different ...

  7. Biometrics - Wikipedia

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    The data is transmitted in encrypted form over the internet for authentication, aiming to free it from the limitations of physical presence of a person at a given place. About 550 million residents have been enrolled and assigned 480 million Aadhaar national identification numbers as of 7 November 2013. [ 76 ]

  8. Bertillon - Wikipedia

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    Bertillon is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914), French police officer and biometrics researcher

  9. Mug shot - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The primary purpose of the mug shot is to allow law enforcement to have a photographic record of an arrested individual to allow for identification by victims, the public and investigators. However, in the United States , entrepreneurs have recently begun to monetize these public records via the mug shot publishing industry .