Publication details
Variation of the Orbital Rim by using the Elliptic Fourier Analysis
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | BIOLOGICAL SHAPE ANALYSIS Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium Tsukuba |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814355247_0013 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814355247_0013 |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | shape analysis orbital outline elliptical Fourier analysis |
| Description | The shape of the orbital rim is one of the essential craniofacial features that play a crucial role in face perception, recognition or personal identification. As a consequence, it continues to attract a large variety of researchers, e.g., skeletal or forensic anthropologists, anatomists, physicians, psychologists etc. Despite being a focus since the rise of traditional anthropometrics, the 3-D nature of the orbital rim has not been satisfactorily quantified. This paper presents an approach to numerically describe the within- and among-population shape variation of the orbital rim, its curviness and spatial orientation using elliptic Fourier analysis. |
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