Weekly Update for Novbmber 05

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# Weekly Update for Novbmber 05
### 2018/11/05

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# About Slides

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# New CSAFE slide template

We're now using [`xaringan`](https://github.com/yihui/xaringan)

What's changed:

- New person slide:

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# Sample User

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# Sample Slide

- Sample Table. Sam Tyner talked about the three must-haves of your summary:

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- If you are going to add an image, **create a directory** with your name within "images" folder. For example, "images/**guillermo**/sample_image.JPG"

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# Miranda

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# Neural Networks

- Forensics@NIST this week
- Debug new model training method (to make heatmaps)
  - Validation accuracy isn't changing during training
- Writing up what we've already done

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# Sam

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# Fall semester plans:

- submit papers from thesis for publication
- writing R packages with SP
    + glass 
    + shoes
    + "uncertainty pyramid" stuff with SL & HI
- working on book funded by ROpenSci Fellowship 
- narrowing down topics & formats for new CSAFE training materials 
- writing "Ten Simple Rules for..." articles with DO
    + statisticians doing forensic science
    + forensic scientists doing statistics
    + [legal professionals encountering statistics](https://github.com/CSAFE-ISU/slides/issues/2)

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# Susan

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# Fall Semester Goals

- `x3ptools` and `bulletxtrctr`
    - \> 95% test coverage (if possible)
    - Results database - data provenance
    - Docker or packrat to ensure environment reproducibility
- Truthiness study data collection
- Paper with Miranda (Creative Component):    
one-hot Convolutional NN for shoeprint feature recognition
- Longitudinal Shoeprint Database
    - Functioning well enough to present at AAFS in Feb

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# Kiegan

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# Fall Semester Goals

- Submit to AFTE journal  
- Complete writing of Chapman & Hall book  
- Write a joint paper with Nate on grooves project  
    - Probably aim for Journal of Forensic Sciences  
    - Compare/contrast of methodologies
    - Downstream impact on the algorithm!  
    
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# Soyoung

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# Fall semester plans: 
 - Shoes
    + Wrap up shoe analysis using edges and SURF 
    + Compare the performance with other methods such as phase only correlations, Fourier-Mellin transformation correlation
    + Do analysis with CSAFE shoe data
    + Submit papers regarding shoe analysis soon!
   
- Research on "uncertainty pyramid" with Steve and Hari at NIST   
 - Glass analysis with Sam
    + Exploratory analysis 
    + Various covariance estimations
    + Submit papers!
   
- Working on book chapters of glass and shoes funded by ROpenSci Fellowship

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# James

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# General Update

* Last Week
 + Resolved Storage Issues 
 + Working with Soyoung on some data collection 
    - 5 New Pairs of Shoes
 
* Files - 570 New 
* Total - 912 Total

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# Danica

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# Fall Semester Goals

- Submit draft BF vs. LR paper to AOS  
    - Write a follow-up paper to LPR  
- Continue NIJ grant to validate FDE conclusions  
- Work with Amy on the CSAFE Handwriting project  
- Work with Dan Spitzner from UVA on the CSAFE Statistical Foundations project
- Write a paper for LPR on approximations to BFs
- Write a paper on Fiducial Factors with UNC

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# Nick

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# handwriter

![](images/Nick/Animatecsafeletters.gif)

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# Flash ID

![](images/Nick/CSAFE_FLASHID.gif)

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# Guillermo

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# Plans for this Fall

- Complete adaptation of registration of 3D scans in R and perform analysis

- Complete shiny app for 2D outsole scans registration

- Write paper of the database which must include some data analysis

- Write paper on speaker recognition (w/Vianey Leos)

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# Amy

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# Fall Semester Goals

- Data Collection
- Expand Bayesian hierarchical model
    - Formal Model Selection
    - Tests and Intervals
    - Validation
- Write and submit a paper on that modeling.
- Exploritory analysis of 'next level' features (AAFS)
    - Work with Ben and Nick

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# Nate

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# Fall Semester Goals
- Verify theoretical basis for current SLR goals and begin experiments on simulated data 
- Finish groove changepoint detection algorithm version 2 and test on all available data
- Write paper with Kiegan on groove results
    
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# Ben

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# Semester Intentions
<img src = "images/ben/stack.jpg" width="35%"/>
- Collaborate w/Nic & Amy to improve handwriting project
- Develop improvements / features part of algorithm
- Eventually port algorithm through an application portal
- Improve file structure of project
- Working on preprocessing binary image
 - Prototyping w/ Numba & Python
 - Testing performance relative to Cpp
 - Hope to expedite development

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# Issues

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- [Issues!!](https://github.com/CSAFE-ISU/slides/issues)
- One issue down, three to go.