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  1. Forensic Identification Operations Support Services, National Services and Research, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Brian A. Yamashita

  2. Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Robert B. Kennedy

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  1. Center for Biometrics and Security, Research & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Stan Z. Li

  2. Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Anil K. Jain

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Yamashita, B.A., Kennedy, R.B. (2015). Forensic Barefoot Comparisons. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_103

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