METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC REGION SEGMENTATION ON CARTRIDGE CASE BASE AND SELECTION OF THE BEST MARK REGION FOR CARTRIDGE CASE COMPARISON

摘要

One of the significant problemsencountered in criminology studies is thesuccessful automatic matching of cartridge casesafter a cartridge is fired from a firearm, on thebasis of the marks left on the cartridge casesfired. One of the probable steps in the solutionof this problem is the segmentation of certainregions defined on the cartridge case. Thisinvention relates to the method for segmentationof cartridge case base by using surface heightmatrix information.