Multimodal Genetic Algorithms for Craniofacial Superimposition
Craniofacial superimposition is a forensic process that aims to identify a missing person by overlaying a photograph and a model of the skull. This process is usually carried out manually by forensic anthropologists, thus being very time consuming and presenting several difficulties when trying to find a good fit between the 3D model of the skull and the 2D photo of the face. This contribution aims to provide both a detailed description of the problem and the proposal of two different designs of a multimodal (clearing) genetic algorithm to tackle it. The new proposals will be tested on superimpositions for different real-world identification cases from the Physical Anthropology lab at the University of Granada in Spain, including positive and negative cases, taking the manual and the basic genetic algorithm solutions as baselines for their quality.